President Trump's recent epic speech in Poland has received a mixed reception from the alt-right at large. In his address to the Poles, Trump praised the still-monocultural, mass immigration-resistant nation for taking a stalwart stand for the values of Western civilization. So far, so great! However, Trump went on to throw down a rhetorical gauntlet against Russia for its recent incursions in Syria and Ukraine, causing some to think he was just using the occasion to regurgitate CIA-friendly Putin-phobic neocon talking points, quite at odds with Candidate Trump's more pro-Russia rhetoric. But can one be pro-traditional West and still Russia-skeptical? Andy Nowicki explores the question in this article, originally published in 2014.
Jesus famously declared that “No man can serve two masters,” by which he meant that devotion to truth can never signify a middle-of-the-road, safe, or moderate stance; instead, it binds one to a radical trajectory of belief and behavior which cannot be compromised.
Christ, however, was referring to a choice between an unworthy master and a worthy one, the former being “mammon” (that is, worldliness); the latter, God. What about when the choice is between two would-be masters, each of whom is plainly unworthy, even if the one might be—relatively speaking—slightly less unsavory than the other?
