John C. Wright's Journal

In case any of my honest readers wonder why my tone is strident and militant of late, and why I speak of drawing the sword against the Ctrl+Left, allow me to proffer three points to explain my conclusion.

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I hope the kind reader is familiar enough with current events to grasp the significance here.

Title 8 United States Code, section 1182(f), of the Immigration and Nationality Act, is entitled “Suspension of Entry or Imposition of Restrictions by President” and states:

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

On January 27, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 13769, entitled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.”  The executive order expressly cited 8 USC, sec. 1182(f) and quoted its language.

As a better man than I has said, even a bad high school student could read and understand the meaning of these words, and the holding of this law.

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Some say that the success of identity politics trumped up by the Left proves that a man will always side with his inborn tribal group, grievance group, and identity politics group rather than with any political doctrine or party or nation into which education, experience, or personal decision might lead him.

Nations are never built on a proposition that all men are created equal and never have been: they are only build on tribes and clans. So runs the theory.

Those who believe this say that the way to defeat Leftwing Anti-White identity politics is by adopting Pro-White identity politics.

They are seduced into making a simple error. It is an error so simple that even a highly intelligent partisan of that movement might not see it.

The identity-grievance politics groups on the Left are all about Leftism and nothing about identity.

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A reader with the utopian name of Brooch Paradise asks:

One thing I’m curious about is what differences you have with the alt right in terms of action. So if president Alt Right were in office, what would or wouldn’t he do that’d you’d take issue with, and if president Last Crusade was in office what would or wouldn’t he do that the alt right would take issue with?

There are no difference in terms of action that I can foresee.

The only difference is in terms of how the debate is framed to the public. The Alt-Right will appeal to the loyalty men feel toward their skin color, which, as far as I can tell, outside of Leftwing Fever Swamps, is none at all. The Last Crusade will appear to the loyalty men feel toward Western Civilization, toward life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and toward goodness, truth, beauty, virtue and Jesus Christ.

Whose appeal do you think is broader and deeper?

A reader with a wiser muse than mine has summed up hours of tedious argumentation with a quip, which I here repeat with relief:

• The Alt-Right says: We must fight identity politics with identity politics.
• I say: No, we must fight faith with faith.

I should add that I am not singling out the Alt-Right for this criticism. The mainstream Right makes the same error using different terms.

The Right apparently believe the fight with the Left is a political struggle, that is, a conflict of lobbyist groups edging for position within the context of an overall framework of laws and customs. It is not. The Left is a religious cult whose aim is to dismantle and destroy those laws and customs.

In both cases, the Cntrl-Left is bringing a gun. A Mainstream Right is bringing a polite knife and the Alt-Right is bringing a rude one, but neither of them see what the fight is really about.

More on this later.