Intellectually, the alt-right worldview proves to be piffle, folderol, without pedigree. But practically, as a stalking horse in the popular mind for Catholic conservatism, it presents the mortal danger of mistaken identity.
The radical news and commentary media will hasten to identify retrogrades as “alt-right” because they customarily slander all non-moderate, non-tepid opposition parties in this boilerplate fashion. It is the new standard of radical Western journalism: depict any and all parties rejecting one-world-government and instead espousing national sovereignty as “alt-right.”
Simply put, to be retrograde is to pose a superlative threat to the radical-mainstream: we are the one true movement of classical anti-racism and anti-bigotry. Radicals will never be deterred from their calumnious false narrative by hard facts, however. The retrograde worldview insists on patriotism, borders, and “turning back the clock” for a highly specific reason: love of Christ and his moral code. The alt-right worldview merely apes these sympathies from a tawdry resentment for the Christian teleology which insinuates them.
These alt-right rogues can easily be popularly confused for retrogrades because they customarily “fight nuclear” like retrogrades. Like that of the retrogrades, alt-right rhetoric lacks the doddering, domestic impotence of the mod-cons. The alt-right is possessed of some fire in the belly, which makes it stand out amongst moderate mainstream wordplay. But their wicked principles are basically, diametrically opposed to ours.
The real secret behind the radical rush to characterize alt-right as conservatism inheres in the fact that alt-right is actually nothing more than the anti-globalist alt-left! Both rivals of the retrograde—radicals and alt-right—prove to be materialistic egalitarians who favor “mob rule” democratic institutions which reject the timelessness of the immutable natural law and the dignity of the individual. Consider the identical nature of the radical left and the alt-right on the following substantial issues: they both favor centrally planned, socialist economy; they both fixate on a determinist view of race and personal identity (whereas the retrograde adopts a position of Thomistic, colorblind individualism); they both harbor a cultural and policy antipathy to Christianity and a longing for a “robust and binding” surrogate for it; each side cherishes abortion, population control, and eugenics.
Moreover, modern radicalism is often implicitly neo-pagan whereas the alt-right is explicitly neo-pagan. Consider this passage from an article in Vice:
There’s a war going on in the American Pagan community. On one side are racists who see gods like Odin and Thor as an embodiment of the supremacy whites have over the rest of the planet. On the other are the practitioners who believe these gods transcend racial lines and belong to everyone. Recently, the contention between these two groups has reached a tipping point as anti-racist pagans try to claim the narrative around their faith before it is overtaken by alt-right racists. Although the leaders of Nazi Germany were obsessed with Paganism and the occult, it has largely been associated with multi-culturalism here in the United States.33
Like all paganism, all bigotry, all eugenics, all anti-Christianity, all collectivism: alt-right is to be repudiated wherever the retrograde encounters it (which is practically nowhere except on the internet, given the alt-right’s exaggerated yet small presence in American life).
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33 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59kq93/racists-are-threatening-to-take-over-paganism.