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Some perennial political failures are now boosting the movement of “Americanism” (your guess is as good as mine regarding its meaning) and hoping to bring together “civic minded” people (their quotes, not mine, again raising the question of the true meaning) to work with Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer, according to some recent inquiries I’ve received.
Some sources are notable for their former (or current) associations with otherwise respectable political groups; others, because research showed they don’t necessarily keep the same, or the best, company. How the company is “bad” runs the gamut, tests the imagination and disgusts the soul; I won’t publicize the associations with any mention.
Either way, they indicate that conservative activists, including self-proclaimed libertarians and “constitutionalists,” have unwittingly been breaking bread with some unsavory characters over the years. This is not entirely surprising. Political movements are prone to infiltration and contamination from opponents and opportunists. It is a downside to the freedom of association one enjoys and expects in a free society.
Why is this stuff coming out now? Has there been a sea change in the ideological terrain, or have they been dormant, like a political version of AIDS, for years? The first possibility seems unlikely, because we’ve had two-term Republican Presidents and neither Ronald Reagan nor George W. Bush inspired (much less condoned) such sentiments, so it must be something else.
My first theory? These groups are currently unified, not necessarily by any shared principle, but by a singular, shared hatred for the cultural Marxism that has established footholds in certain industries, professions, universities and even cities and states of prominence. Throw in certain psychological or behavioral traits and one has a nice rancid mix.
So I give you — the American “AntiMa.” That’s a more accurate (and an entirely invented acronym for anti-Marxist) term for these groups, otherwise connected only by a love (again, for the moment) for all things Trump, than the “alt-right” adjective which defiles the classic Right.
AntiMa might be as scary as AntiFa. Maybe worse. AntiMa, the so-called conservatives, purports to share and defend our principles, claim to be the true heirs to Buckley and Reagan,
and label anyone questioning them as the apostates, the irredeemables, the traitors.
AntiMa gives lip service to basic civil rights. Its Bill of Rights seems to be a selective application of the First Amendment and ends after the Second. Unlike informed libertarians, AntiMa embraces government power and largesse when it helps them or hurts their enemies.
Its view is that neither big government nor authoritarian-style power is bad; it’s only when it’s held and wielded by the wrong people that there’s a problem. So bullying is just fine when done by the right people. Bookmark this the next time you feel the government is overregulating you, overcriminalizing something.
AntiMa is also anti-intellectual and driven by envy. Achievements and assets and credentials are not signs of merit, but instead are evidence of untrustworthiness and moral inferiority. At least AntiFa would transform higher education; I sense AntiMa would destroy it all and bring us back to the “good old days,” perhaps of the Middle Ages.
AntiMa, as demonstrated by the new social media stars and lapdogs, demand obedience and consider independence of thought and character to be tantamount to insubordination, if not outright treason. Freedom fighters and lovers of liberty? Hardly.
Life isn’t fair and we don’t bear the responsibility for the errors of others. However, in politics, perception matters. We are responsible for cleaning our own houses, if for no other reason than we bear the risk of injury to our reputation and our principles.
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