JAMES KIRKPATRICK AT 2024 VDARE CONFERENCE | “We Win This, Or No Victory Is Possible.”
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow at the VDARE.com conference April 27, 2024:
I've been saying today that one of the great things about getting old is that there's a new crop of younger and betterer people coming along. Here we have TWO of them.
That's an inside joke, actually. James Kirkpatrick has other identities! Can I say who you are? ...
Oh yes, he's also Gregory Hood at AmRen. And he has another identity too, which I'm not going to reveal. He's one of the most important writers that has emerged, I think we can say, on the Alt-Right, because that's when he really came to power. And he continues to drive the agenda in very many ways.
James Kirkpatrick:
I don't know about that. I wish we could just spare the BS and everybody could just call me Kevin Deanna.
There were certain strategies and there were certain ideas and certain things that made sense ten years ago, which don't make sense now. But the problem is, if you do something like that, then nobody knows who you are. I've been called like four different names just by people here.
When I started out, when I was basically just a kid, I got a job at a place called the Leadership Institute. They give you the survey when you start and they say, "Well, what's the most important issue? What's the most important issue to a conservative?"
And even back then I said immigration. And the reason why is because I said immigration defines what the country is. And from a tactical standpoint, you don't win on that, you're not going to win on anything else. I'm tempted to say that's basically it, but long experience in this movement has shown me that things aren't that simple and that human psychology is a bit more complicated and a bit more twisted than I think we would like it to be.
There's a temptation, I think, for all of us, and this is for everybody, that our lives have cosmic significance, at least when we were born. I'm persuaded that the early Christians, for example, thought that the end of the world was coming very soon, and then 500 years they thought it was coming again, and then 1,000 years they thought it was coming again. There's been various doomsday prophecies over the years, none of which have particularly held back the sects that predicted these things.
And certainly the predominant religious impulse of our time comes from the Left, and they claim to be secular, but they are not secular. And the prediction of a Marxist society, climate change, or any of these things, is all just eschatology by another name. The religious impulse is ineradicable. And maybe there's something to be said that we're afraid that, maybe we were just born at a time that is just like any other time, that there's nothing particularly special about when we were born.
Certainly there's an illusion of permanence at every time. Very few people in 1900 would have expected that the European world order was about to collapse in a genocidal and pointless war within about 20 years.
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