“Horseshoe Theory” is a term used to describe the tendency for the Far Left and Far Right to come together on a handful of issues and pitting them against the Center. This was particularly pronounced during the era of the centric dominating Bush-Clinton Establishment, which lasted from around 1989 to 2016. During this time, a Far Left-Far Right counter-alignment was built against ideas such as the necessity for free trade and mass immigration, foreign intervention abroad, and corporate-friendly economic policies at home. Against the Establishment stood men like Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan who, despite their ideological differences, understood that these policies, regardless of their overwhelming support from the Beltway bureaucrats, were terrible for the majority of the country. As someone who politically came of age during this era, I am well aware of the strange bedfellows that were made. One only needs to recall Pat Buchanan here. As reported in Timothy Stanley’s masterful The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan, in 1968 Buchanan stood outside his hotel in Chicago and pointed out rioting protesters the cops had missed. However, when Seattle erupted in protests in 1999 during the WTO Conference, Buchanan was surprisingly sympathetic. He understood that the Bush-Clinton Establishment was now a bigger threat to Historic America.
But nowhere can the horseshoe theory be better observed than in relation to the nation of Israel. While the Center – from Obama to Trump – supports Israel wholeheartedly, the Far Left and Far Right are much more critical of the Jewish state, as has been seen in the past several weeks with pro-Palestinian protests breaking out on college campuses. The reaction from the Establishment, and particularly the establishment Left, has been enlightening, as well as predictable. Protesters have been threatened with permanent unemployment and some have had job offers rescinded, in essence blacklisting them. Of course, anti-White, and especially anti-Southern, activity has been the rage for almost a decade now, but this was met with far different feedback. Rather than being blacklisted and doxxed, anti-White and anti-Dixie protesters received praise, social clout, and even funding. Major corporations let them know that they were on their side, even when they call(ed) for implicit and explicit violence against Whites. I do not have to tell anyone reading this article why anti-White and anti-Israel rhetoric is met with such contrasting reactions.
Similarly, the Far Right is deeply critical of Israel, with that being one of the biggest splits between it and mainline conservatism, and such criticism is a quick way to be excommunicated from the “respectable” Right. One only needs to remember the career of the late Joseph Sobran to see this in action. Sobran once looked poised to take over from William F. Buckley, Jr. at the National Review and, instead, ended up dying in poverty because he would not bend the knee to a nation created in 1948 in the Middle East.
As tempting as it may be to look at the anti-Israel Left as reluctant allies to break Israel’s control over the United States, the Authentic Right must fight this temptation. Broken clocks might be right twice a day, but in this case, these broken clocks are still vehemently anti-White. To understand this, we must examine something about the anti-Israel Left – they are simply the leftists that are too consistent (and stupid) to understand that while Israel gets to be nationalistic and racialistic, Whites do not. Make no mistake, the anti-Israel Left is still anti-White, and rabidly so. To them, Jews are White and, therefore, need to be replaced. I am not a White Nationalist; I am a Southern Nationalist. I do not particularly care whether or not Jews are White. Massachusettsans are clearly White, but they are terrible. Notwithstanding the White Nationalists conviction that White Jewry is an absolute anathema, remember that to the majority of people, they think that Jews do look physically White. And, that is what the anti-Israel leftwing protesters are going by. Additionally, the anti-Israel Left supports the Palestinians because they are not White and, as such, are on the “right side of history.” Again, for the Far Left, the West is the fountain by which all the world’s evils flow and if it was not for the wicked West, the world would be at peace.
Despite what their critics in the Center observe during these protests, the pro-Palestinian Left is not antisemitic, rather they are anti-White. Like clockwork, they behave the same way every time there is a terrorist attack in Europe – to vigorously defend their imported black and brown murderers instead of the White victims. Nor is it, as other, more intelligent people have stated, a fetishization for weakness, at least not at its core. It may be tempting to view it this way, but in the mind of the anti-Israel Left: Whites are always the oppressors and non-Whites are always the oppressed. Any nuance is not allowed within this framework. At the center of this mindset is a hatred of the White race. Good examples would be how the modern Left views the Ottoman Empire through rose-colored glasses or downplays the barbarity of the Mongols; instead, leftists focus on how “tolerant” those regimes were compared to the “evil” Europeans. Talking to leftists, I am utterly convinced that they would travel back to 1683 and root for the Turks to win at Vienna so the West would be crushed. The enemy of Israel is not necessarily my fiend.
The response from the Authentic Right should be to merely sit back and watch the Left eat itself. This is not our fight, and we have no reason to get in the middle of this. Keep in mind that this is yet another golem that has turned on its master. The anti-Israel Left coalition is largely a creation of the 1960s. It is the result of an immigration policy designed to make Whites a minority in the United States. It is the result of terrible historians, like Howard Zinn, who lectured generations that the West was nothing but an oppressor. It is the result of telling blacks how Whites are out to get them. Eventually, all three noticed that those Jews sure do look White and decided that Israel, much like the West, must be an evil oppressor that needs to be enriched by diversity. It is not that the anti-Israel Left is correct, it’s that they simply think Jews are White, and what is being done to White countries must be done to Jews, too.
How unsurprising about the anti-Israel coalition being anti-White as well.
I don’t support any side here since each support non-Whites, which are extremely evil and disgusting.
Seriously, I don’t see any attempt of friendship between individuals of different races to be even possible and stable.
Maybe I am exaggerating, but this is getting tiresome for sure.
We must put an end to the Federal Government/Corporate/Egalitarian encroachment upon communties.
We must remeber that Leftist are post civilazational savages who stand for urban street thugery, child murder, child mutiltation, self mutilation, pedophilia, pornography, demographic displacement, punsishment of decent and normal people. So i don’t give a damn that they rail against some far away socialist entho state.
Like their liege lord, leftists have *always* rebelled against Biblical morals. It’s as simple as that. It’s their defining feature. Even the hint of Biblical mores wafting on the wind will whip them into an angry swarm.
Concerning Israel, leftists stupidly imagine it to be some kind of Bibliocracy; and that the Israelis are Biblical and moral people. We here know that’s not the truth, but we here are a relatively powerless and detested minority. Jews hate us. Leftists hate us. Atheists hate us. Northerners hate us. Muslims hate us. The Elites hate us…. Why? Because they detect not just Biblical morals… they detect CHRISTIAN morals! Gasp!!! Christians are THE enemy in their view. All of them.
Muslims, whatever their virtues, adhere to a false religion dreamed up by a false prophet. “Allah” is Satan in a Barney suit. That’s why Jews are importing Muslims into Europe by the supertankerful. Leftists are defensive regarding Islam, because they’re on the same team… and they know it.
And while, vis a vis Jews and Muslims, they may seem to genuinely dislike some of the others in the hive, they all will, of course, quickly unite and swarm to the attack when it comes down to the demon’s real game – ridding the World of Christians.
I’m probably preaching to the choir here but I haven’t heard that view expounded before.
Amen. Sounds like you’ve read Michael Hoffman’s book.
BTW, thanks, Harmonica!
GC, haven’t read him saying that, but he’d be one to say it. He’s a great writer. I need to shoot him some more money.
Excellent take sir.