The words "Richard Spencer" and "implicit" go together like peanut butter and jelly, so there really should be no problem with looking round the hard edges of what Spencer says, to the imputation and inference of his words, especially when it fits so well to the condition of the Alt-Right.
Recently Spencer was on my favourite YouTube channel "The Public Space" with Nick Fuentes and the host Jean-Francois Gariépy. Inevitably Spencer started to bash Conservatives and Constitutionalists, which is fine by me, but the funny thing was that, with very few changes, his criticisms fitted his own version of the Alt-Right like a latex glove.
Here is the relevant passage which you can also find in this timestamped link:
In the same way that America can't escape its cursed legacy, so the Spencerian Alt-Right may be incapable of escaping its essential Richardness—a semi-autistic tendency to juvenile shock tactics, crude moral decontextualisation, a "notice me senpai" attitude to the MSM, and a blindness to the subtleties of strategy, stemming from a Fuhrer principle pivoted on the squishy ground of a man fated to live his life on the antisocial economic basis of a trust fund.
Yes, if the video can't be rewound with a different ending, as Spencer clearly agrees, then it is explicitly clear that we need something new, something bigger, better, stronger, and smarter to contain and channel the positive forces that built the Alt-Right, that he then led up an ally and painted into a corner.
Recently Spencer was on my favourite YouTube channel "The Public Space" with Nick Fuentes and the host Jean-Francois Gariépy. Inevitably Spencer started to bash Conservatives and Constitutionalists, which is fine by me, but the funny thing was that, with very few changes, his criticisms fitted his own version of the Alt-Right like a latex glove.
Here is the relevant passage which you can also find in this timestamped link:
"["Make America Great Again"] was an inherently retroactive statement. It was not towards the future. It was about returning to a period of time, and I would say this, I don't think we can ever really return to periods of time. If we could simply rewind the video, it is simply going to end up at the same place we are today. If we could rewind back to 1950, 1950 set the groundwork for where we are today. We have to acknowledge that there are inherent problems to the American project that led us to where we are, and that doesn't mean there were not great things about it—I would never argue anything to the contrary...It is clear that we have to have something new."Spencer is clearly not interested in fixing things, and I'm not saying he is wrong there, but the funny thing is that what he says fits the Alt-Right better than it fits America. Let's try that:
"["Make the Alt-Right Great Again"] is an inherently retroactive statement. It is not towards the future. It is about returning to a period of time, and I would say this, I don't think we can ever really return to periods of time. If we could simply rewind the video, it is simply going to end up at the same place we are today. If we could rewind back to before Heilgate, Heilgate set the groundwork for where we are today. We have to acknowledge that there are inherent problems to the Alt-Right project that led us to where we are, and that doesn't mean there were not great things about it—I would never argue anything to the contrary...It is clear that we have to have something new."I don't think I am stretching things or shoe-horning them in here. In fact, making the switch between MAGA and the Alt-Right was pretty effortless, and clicked right away.
In the same way that America can't escape its cursed legacy, so the Spencerian Alt-Right may be incapable of escaping its essential Richardness—a semi-autistic tendency to juvenile shock tactics, crude moral decontextualisation, a "notice me senpai" attitude to the MSM, and a blindness to the subtleties of strategy, stemming from a Fuhrer principle pivoted on the squishy ground of a man fated to live his life on the antisocial economic basis of a trust fund.
Yes, if the video can't be rewound with a different ending, as Spencer clearly agrees, then it is explicitly clear that we need something new, something bigger, better, stronger, and smarter to contain and channel the positive forces that built the Alt-Right, that he then led up an ally and painted into a corner.
