Charlottesville, January 6, and the Revolution from the Middle

It really is remarkable to see the near breathless coverage of January 6 play out in the media. The fact that so many in the media treat January 6 like it was an actual insurrection, rather than a group of normies led into a trap by Feds, really does reveal the mentality of the ruling-class and their media lapdogs. Many on the Dissident Right, and even a few on the normie Right, have noticed the discrepancy between the media’s coverage of January 6 and how they ignored the far more massive rioting that occurred throughout the summer of 2020. The reasoning behind this is simple enough – the riots of 2020 were aimed at Middle America, especially Dixie, and were perpetrated by the Establishment’s shock troops. By contrast, January 6 was aimed at the elite and perpetrated (ignoring the Feds, of course) by people whom the elites, quite literally, want dead. But what is also interesting is to review both “J6” and “A12” (Unite the Right, or UTR). In both cases, it was Middle America, especially the South, versus the Establishment and antifa; yet, far more ink, to say nothing of the effort to crush them, has gone into the January 6 narrative than UTR. The rationale behind this warrants some examination.

There are several, more superficial reasons for this discrepancy. The first one is simply a numbers game. There were many more people at January 6 than UTR, so more effort must be placed into hunting them down. Part of it is also a matter of optics – the people at UTR were labeled “Nazis” by the media – which a few decided to go out and prove – and since “Nazi” is treated worse than child molestation by the media, it was very easy to get most Americans to lose all sympathy for them. By contrast, the protesters at J6 grounded their optics in more American iconography, thus more effort is needed to demonize them. In the case of UTR, the groundwork to disparage the protesters was laid out decades ago. And most obviously, though the elites obviously supported antifa, what happened in Washington DC was a more direct threat to their power than something that happened in a small college town in Virginia.

Those are all good reasons, but I think they ultimately only scratch the surface of what is really going on here. By targeting the January 6 protesters for as long as they have, the elites are hoping to crush the segment of Middle America most capable of staging a revolution against globohomo. To understand what is going on, we must review one of the most important men of the Right in the late 20^th century.

The late Samuel T. Francis is a man who needs no introduction in Dissident Right circles. I may have my disagreements with him, namely his ignoring of the importance of religion and his rejection of modern-day Southern secession (Francis was a proud Southerner and wanted Southerners to keep their identity but believed modern secession would split American Whites along sectional lines and at a time when unity was needed) – but there is no denying his brilliance. Even many on the Establishment Right and Left, despite denouncing him, still would note his genius.

Perhaps his most important idea is his understanding of the “Revolution from the Middle” – taken from a book of the same name. According to Francis, the historic American core, middle-class Whites, faced a threat from both the (disproportionally non-White) under-class that lived on welfare generated from their tax dollars and a (disproportionally Jewish) ruling-class that shipped jobs out, immigrants in, and promoted degeneracy. Because both the under-class and ruling-class were propped up by the system, the only real way to end it ran though the traditional middle-class: small business owners, managers, skilled blue-collar workers, etc. Francis was mostly drawing from the work of sociologist Donald Warren and his book The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation and focuses on the “Middle American Radical” – voters who consider themselves threatened by Democratic social policy and Republican economic policy and reject both (basically, the George Wallace voter). It’s a class theory – labeled producerism by some – that I like quite a bit. I think it explains how the system works very well and, more importantly, it allows the Dissident Right to establish a Third Position between the Marxist Left, and its slavish devotion to the under-class, and the Establishment Right (and the Left, too), with its servile fidelity to the ruling-class. It recognizes the threat the national core faces and provides a nation/people with a path toward independence and against globohomo.

I don’t want to paint with too broad of brush, but the January 6 protesters tended to be more from Francis’ Middle American core than the UTR attendees. Part of this is because of youth, the UTR protesters were younger and did not have the time to build themselves up economically. The January 6 protesters were older and had already established themselves and, according to Francis, were now in a better position to challenge globohomo.

The Establishment understands this and now considers it as absolutely paramount that the January 6 protesters be destroyed – they constitute a bigger threat to the system. Ever since the rise of Trump, the Establishment has been scrambling for answers as to what happened. Remember, they really did think they had uncontested rule after the failure of the Buchanan movement in the 1990s and the co-opting of the Tea Party in the 2010s. They looked into the ideological roots of this unexpected revolt and though many names came up, Sam Francis was undoubtedly one of the largest. His writings on the “Revolution from the Middle” is a remarkably accurate prediction of the rise of the Dissident Right two decades later. The Establishment still knows who Francis is, and although they may hate him, they also understand that he was more or less right about which segment of society could end the rule of the global elite.

The revolution against globohomo runs through the middle – through the small business owner, what is left of the conservative professional and managerial classes, and the skilled blue-collar worker. The under-class cannot do this – they have been bought off with welfare. The ruling-class cannot do this either, they have been enriched beyond all measure. It is the middle, recognizing both the economic and cultural threat of globohomo, a two-front threat from both above and below, that serves as the greatest adversary against globohomo. January 6 was a showcase of this realization, and the Establishment knows it. That is why they are working so hard to crush them. The elite are seeking to make an example of January 6, lest the rest of the “Middle American Radicals” start getting any ideas.