The South and the “Alt-Right”

Originally posted at Reckonin.com

My last post (Hitler’s New Fans) has received a fair amount of comment, mostly negative. Some have questioned why I addressed the subject? Because I thought someone needed to take notice of an unfortunate trend.

I have no quarrel with the Alternative Right as long as it is attacking the evil Yankee Empire. But to bring into the defense of the South ideologies and the history of Central and Eastern Europe of a century ago and revise World War II is an irrelevant, useless, and counter-productive tangent.

Our defense of the South needs to be positive and forward looking. That is what our best spokesmen have always taught—the Agrarians, Weaver, Bradford, Livingston. The South is a living, long-lasting cultural reality of great beauty that has always attracted the allegiance of good people, even beyond our borders. It is not an aggressive ideology to be fueled by Old World ideas.

We cannot defeat the Yankee Empire politically. We can only watch it deteriorate from bad leadership and decaying culture. We should be building something attractive to put in its place. I think some of the Alt-Right would-be defenders of the South are actually still caught up in American nationalism and its bad deeds in the past. To be truly Southern we need to secede in our spirits from the U.S. and not care about it.

Hitler was a sham, not an exemplar. Because he attacked the Jews, who after all are White, he and the Nazis have been established as “racists,” never to be allowed to rise again. That idea was used after World War II to damage the European empires and bring tyranny and chaos to large parts of Asia and Africa. And that move was promoted by the U.S. government. The same notion of Nazism was also used to justify the Second Reconstruction of the South, supposedly to remove “racism” so America could be a true example of universal equality to the world. It was the usual shallow Yankee virtue signaling.

Hitler was not a defender of White people. He was responsible for the death of more White people than anyone in history. Every country that he invaded, occupied, and oppressed was White. He allied with the Japs and Islamists. He was a crazed German imperialist. To help Europe Germany could have provided cultural leadership rather than invasion.

All that stuff about “Nordic” supremacy and wiping out the inferior Slavs was a propaganda con game. Most of the countries he invaded were as much or more “Nordic” than Germany. Look at the pictures from the time. Ther German armies were full of Slavic-looking people. The U.S. and British armies were just as “Nordic” as the German or more so. The defenders of Russia and Poland are often tall and fair, as are the French resistants.

It is true that World War II disastrously left much of Europe under Soviet occupation. That was made possible by FDR and the Communists around him who were manipulating the Yankee Empire at the time.

The Soviets received vast amounts of American and British aid, hiding from their people where it came from. They may have kept American POWs taken from the Germans. There was the Katryn Massacre and Russians halting the entrance into Warsaw so the Germans could wipe out the Polish patriots and they could install a Communist government.

Roosevelt and his handlers in the latter part of the war did everything they could to advance the Communist cause, even shipping them atomic materials. The U.S. Army was ordered to halt so the Reds could take Berlin. Roosevelt and his handlers knew much of what was going on and they constantly acted to betray their allies for the profit of the Communists.

The Allies in 1944 had a powerful and victorious army in northern Italy, 388 miles from Vienna and the Reich. Instead of D-Day, Churchill advocated a move there, which would also have saved much of Eastern Europe from the Russians. From Normandy to Berlin is almost 700 miles— sometimes bad terrain, great rivers to cross, well-established defenses bravely defended, and a long supply line back to the Atlantic. A guarantee of Allied casualties all the way. Some of the army in Italy was even sent on a completely useless attack on southern France.

And the Cold War which used up so much American and Southern blood and treasure was the Yankee Empire attempting to hold back the Communist cause they had done so much, falsely and needlessly, to promote.

​I think that anybody who makes Hitler a hero and Churchill a villain has serious spiritual problems and can’t be Southern.

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Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina where he was the editor of the multivolume The Papers of John C. Calhoun. He is the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair at the Abbeville Institute. He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews and is co-publisher of www.shotwellpublishing.com, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books.

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