This past week, the American Nation defeated the Globohomo Thralls' attempt to keep the God-Emperor away from the Golden Throne. Donald Trump won again.
The post-mortems are flying around furiously on all sides, but I want to focus your attention to Auron MacIntyre and Academic Agent. They have had, and still have, a difference of opinion on which is primary: Power or Ideology.
Below I'll embed their respective videos where they touch on this in the context of the election and the responses by the Globohomo Thralls of Empire. AA also cut an article for his Substack publication on the matter, which is worth a read.
As of this point, AA's explanation has the superior pile of receipts backing it up while Auron--aside from his valid point on non-falsifibility--was lacking until today's Regime Media clips started making the rounds proving Auron's point on Ideology being primary.
But AA's argument has a cornerstone that Auron not only cannot refute, but already accepts as correct and agrees upon: that what matters is the better-organized and supplied elite cohort, and the elite faction backing Trump was that cohort while the faction backing Biden was not. Furthermore, that losing faction acknowledged its inferior state by its action- by its deeds. AA's Jobber Hypothesis got confirmed by events.
What neither man mentioned explicitly, but Auron said implicitly, is that the Globohomo Thralls can accept the cost of replacing their man with a Jobber because they have control over the institutions of the United States and much of the Western world generally. They have a fallback position. From that position they can rally, regroup, organize, and execute a counter-strategy from a position of strength.
This is what people like Mike Cernovich, Milo, Douglas Mackey, Elon Musk, etc. are pointing out now consistently as the down-ballot races (and the fuckery therein) gets sorted. AA's position on Power being primary ignores the motivating and animating power of Ideology, believing ultimately that the end of Globohomo's Thralls is power itself and ideology is just a tool to use to get/keep/expand that power. Auron's position is that Ideology is primary because that determines the end, to which power is just the means to get those ends to manifest.
What I see is that these are, as AA implies, two rival cohorts dealing with a third cohort backing Trump and his coalition. The Power faction are the Zionists. The Ideology faction are the anti-Zionists, as that's how the Power/Ideology question is playing out between them.
The Ideology faction, when dominant, imposes its dystopian Theocratic regime upon those whom it subjugates. This is why you get all the humiliation rituals, the Friend/Enemy distinction so stark and obvious even Carl Schimdt says you're overdoing it (which is also why Muh Hypocrisy doesn't even phases them; you don't treat Friends as Enemies and vice-versa), the naked displays of petty power-tripping coupled by abject victim-performativism when they lose like they're Starscream out of Transformers. For all their performative Theater Kid bullshit, they are True Believers and thus religious fanatics so there are no brakes on their train
The Power faction, when dominant, plays Good Cop (them)/Bad Cop (Ideology) with the subjugated population. This is where AA gets "The Woke Gets Put Away" and thinks that Power always wins and Ideology is just a tool- for Power it is and they do "If you don't do as I say, I can't guarantee that these insane lunatics won't harm you" in the most naked form of Protection Racket fuckery around.
What Auron doesn't get is that Ideology fumbles power because they are driven by their fanaticism to pursue its ends no matter the costs, costs which squanders power when they have it. Because it wastes power like a teenager handed an inheritance of billions and no one around to stop them from going on a massive spending bender, Ideology rarely lasts in power if there is a rival cohort ready to pounce and able to succeed- and martyrdom, believe it or not, is not the trump card believers think it is.
What AA doesn't get is that Power gets seized by ideology when it misreads its ability to contain and control it, ending up being eaten by their own pets, because naked pursuit of power as the end in itself only appeals to Psychopaths and Sociopaths and most people Just Can't Even into that so they end up taken by ideology because of its greater power to justify action and thus power.
Yes, you need both, and that means you need an elite cohort that comprehends what Power is and how it works as well as what Ideology is (i.e. Narrative) and how it works- and why any ruling elite must have mastery of both to take and hold power long-term.
This is not a question of "Which matters?" but rather a question of "How do you mix them together to get the synthesis that is required to achieve long-term success?"
Until AA and Auron come to that point, they will continue to talk past each other and both will end up falling short of achieving the mission that they set for themselves.
N.B.: The reason martyrdom isn't a trump card is that it relies on the ability to report the events leading to that event to others. In short, it is wide open to Narrative Warfare, and if you think such events can't be recast by enemies to--at worst--not serve believers' interests then I remind you of how many who died for their beliefs are regarded today- with scorn and contempt. That, however, is worthy of a massive post to itself as control over the narratives of martyrdom is itself a theater of war.
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