Category Archives: Republican Party

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about The 2024 Election

automation, Bernie Sanders, capitalism, censorship, Class, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, History, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Keith Preston, Leftism, Managerialism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Republican Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Russia, Silicon Valley, Socialism, terrorism, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Wall Street, War

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the 2024 election and the politics of America’s power elite. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

-Factions of America’s ruling class, including the Northeastern establishment, Sunbelt capitalist class, and Wall Street and Silicon Valley new money
-What conspiracy theorists get wrong about the nature of power
-How elites cultivate constituencies
-How the elite’s opposition to Trump is more about decorum and instability than policy
-Keith’s prediction that the elites will negotiate a deal with Trump
-Keith’s prediction that Trump will govern as a normie moderate Republican for his 2nd Term
-The Israel Lobby favoring Trump over Biden
-How the Israel conflict is weakening wokeness and the alliance between progressives and the neoliberal establishment
-Why Biden’s re-election is better from an anti-establishment standpoint
-America’s three political blocks, MAGA Nationalist Populists, Centrist Neoliberals, and the Progressive Left
-How the Nationalist Right will further radicalize with limited growth potential
-Why partisan cycles favor Democrats over the next few decades
-The political realignment over social class
-The hyper-capitalist Sunbelt elite as a barrier to the GOP turning populist on economics
-Why Trumpenomics will likely be inflationary
-The risks of the Ukraine and Israel wars escalating
-The Europhile Northeastern establishment and Europhobic Sunbelt’s divide over Ukraine
-Speculating whether Trump or Biden will win
-RFK’s JR.’s brand of bourgeoise bohemian Centrist Populism
-The hysteria over the election, such as about Project 2025
-Why Democrats are hesitant to replace Joe Biden but plan to replace him with Kamala Harris after the election
-Why Biden is the lesser of evils compared to Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris
-Why America’s elites’ mercantile nature means that full blown totalitarianism is not likely in America

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Robert Stark talks to Constantin von Hoffmeister about Esoteric Trumpism

1950's, aesthetics, Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Alternative Right, American Culture, Architecture, Art, Beatniks, Brandon Adamson, California, censorship, Cinema, Cities, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Constantin von Hoffmeister, Culture, Daniel Friberg, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Edgar Alan Poe, Elections, Ernst Jünger, Ethno Nationalism, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, Germany, Globalization, Guillaume Faye, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, History, Hollywood, horror, Immigration, Jack Kerouac, Joe Biden, Las Vegas, Liberalism, Literature, Los Angeles, Mass Transit, Matthew Pegas, Media, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oswald Spengler, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Race Relations, Republican Party, Retro Futurism, Russia, Suburbia, Surrealism, the New Right, The Perfume Nationalist, Urbanism, William S. Burroughs, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with Constantin von Hoffmeister about his book Esoteric Trumpism. This is a simulcast with Matt’s New Write podcast. Originally from Germany, Constantin von Hoffmeister studied English Literature and Political Science in New Orleans. Constantin has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia, and is the editor in chief of Arktos publishing. Follow Constantin on Twitter and subscribe to his Substack.

Topics:

Literary references, including William S. Burroughs, HP Lovecraft, and Edgar Alan Poe
Misconceptions about the Beatniks as leftwing (eg Jack Kerouac’s admiration of Oswald Spengler)
How the Beats’ disillusionment shows problems with fetishizing 1950s America
Philistinism on the Right and the rise of a new creative culture-focused Right
How America has an underappreciated rich cultural heritage
America as an extension of European civilization
Rightwing Postmodernism
Trump as the great revealer of hidden Lovecraftian horrors
Why Trump’s political significance is primarily symbolic
Addressing criticisms and disappointments with Trump
Meme magic
Why Constantin rejects accelerationism
Why Rightwing multiculturalism or ethnopluralism is the future 
Constantin’s recent meet up with Robert and Matt in LA, and observation that LA is a model for ethnopluralism
Why Constantin is more optimistic about America’s future than Europe’s
Upcoming Arktos projects, including a new translation of Dominque  Venner on Ernst Junger, a rightwing critique of Nietzsche, and an art history book

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Anatoly Karlin talks about his intellectual restructuring: how Putin made him a Globalist 

Alt Center, American Culture, Anatoly Karlin, anti-semitism, automation, Basic Income, censorship, China, Conservatives, Culture, decentralization, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Eugenics, Futurism, Gavin Newsom, Global Warming, Globalization, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, IQ, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Leftism, Liberalism, Nationalism, NATO, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Richard Hanania, Richard Spencer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Ron DeSantis, Russia, technology, terrorism, Transhumanism, Ukraine, Vivek Ramaswamy, Vladimir Putin, War

Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about his political transformation, as well as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and the timeline for the singularity/AGI. Anatoly Karlin used to blog at Unz until 2021, and has a new substack blog, Nooceleration, focused on Artificial intelligence. Follow Anatoly on Twitter.

Topics:
Anatoly’s ideological transformation from a Russian nationalist to a neoliberal globalist, and why he has no use for the Right
Anatoly’s prediction that the Ukraine war would happen in December, 2021 (referenced in New York Times), though he was wrong in predicting that the war would be short
Why the war will likely remain a stalemate, unless there is some technological breakthrough
Anatoly’s disillusionment with Putin’s Russia
Why neutrality is the sane position for both the Ukraine vs Russia and Israel vs. Gaza conflicts
Why large-scale escalation of the Mideast conflict is unlikely in a conventional timeline, though an AGI alignment timeline increases the risk
Is the Israel/Gaza War the end of the Liberal-Zionist Alliance? (Woke anti-Zionists hate Israel/Jews due to their Whiteness)
Whether wokeness is waning and being replaced by outright establishmentarianism
Anatoly’s correct prediction that the election would be Trump vs. Biden, and why he still predicts that Biden will win
Why Anatoly is more bearish on China’s economic and soft power after previously being a China bull
Reasons to be relatively bullish on the US, primarily because its the center of AI
Why the culture wars are unimportant looking at the big picture
The major problems with AI accelerationism
The economic impacts of AI and crisis of overproduction
Why the solution to AI is not government regulation but rather investing in the biosphere, plus reforming the hardware based on a public blockchain

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Kevin Lynn interviews Robert Stark about Why No Collapse is the Real Dystopia

1960's, 1980's, automation, Banking, Bernie Sanders, California, China, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton, History, Immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, Kevin Lynn, Leftism, Liberalism, Memes, Peter Turchin, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Psychology, Republican Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Robert Putnam, Roman Empire, Russia, social capital, social trust, Ukraine, Wall Street, War, Wealth

Kevin Lynn interviews Robert Stark about his article, No Collapse is the Real Dystopia: still waiting for the Big Collapse. This recording is a simulcast for Kevin’s Institute for Sound Public Policy’s YouTube channel, recorded on June 13th. Kevin Lynn is executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and Progressives for Immigration Reform, and founder of US Tech Workers. Follow Kevin on Twitter.

Topics:

Revisiting past predictions about economic collapse, the current stagnant vibes,  and return of bullish copes about the economy
John Michael Greer’s Not the Future We Ordered and his theory of catabolic collapse
Research predicting future cycles of collapse by Peter Turchin, Neil Howe & William Strauss’ Fourth Turning, and the Kondratiev wave
Reponses to the article , including a re-publish on ZeroHedege, and a critical response from Jeet Heer
Those who are psychologically invested in collapse
The pros and cons of being a perma bear, and Kevin revisits the 08 crash
How the bears will be vindicated in the long run, due to unprecedented levels of debt
The impact of demographic cycles on politics, social strife, and the economy
The scope of the migrant crisis which is unprecedented in American history, and Michael Yon’s reporting from the Darien Gap
Janet Yellen’s statement, expecting a slow steady decline of the dollar
The exodus out of California 
The Hard Times Create Strong Men meme 
Speculation about the Trump incitement and 2024 election

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Where will this Economic Chaos lead to? (With Kevin Lynn)

Baby Boomers, Banking, Barack Obama, California, capitalism, China, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Environment, Federal Reserve, George Bush, Globalization, Immigration, income inequality, Independent Political Candidates, James Howard Kunstler, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kevin Lynn, Leftism, Libertarianism, Oil, Oligarchy, Peak Oil, Peter Turchin, Peter Zeihan, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Parties, Politics, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Republican Party, Ross Perot, Russia, Silicon Valley, Taxation, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Urbanism, Wall Street, War, Water, Wealth, Zoning

Robert Stark talks to Kevin Lynn about the dire implications of economic data and trends. Kevin Lynn is executive director of Progressives for Immigration Reform and founder of US Tech Workers. Follow Kevin on Twitter.

Topics:

Examples of gaslighting on the economy,  Redefining the definition of recession and declaration of a “Vibecession”
How the economic bullishness and bear rallies in stocks show the degree of disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street
The “Baking” of the Jobs numbers report and inflation data
The beginning of mass Tech layoffs
The super bubble to end all bubbles
Kevin’s article If You Thought the NIMBYs Were Bad – Meet the YIMBYs
Revisiting the pandemic stimulus and how only a fraction of stimulus went directly to the people
Federal Reserve policy, Biden’s “Inflation Reduction” Act,” and vulnerabilities of the dollar
Speculating worst case economic scenarios (deflationary depression, long-term stagflation, real estate crash, and debt crisis)
Geopolitics crisis, supply chains issues, global conflicts and civil unrest
The Fourth Turning theory and Peter Turchin’s method of measuring cycles of crisis
The political implications of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar a Lago
Kevin’s observations from attending the recent CPAC conference in Texas on the political currents

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the Ukraine War

Afghanistan, American Culture, American Exceptionalism, Anarchism, Armenia, Asia, Barack Obama, Caleb Maupin, censorship, China, Communism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, Cuba, Culture, decentralization, Donald Trump, Economics, Europe, George Bush, Georgia(Nation), Globalization, Hillary Clinton, humanitarianism, Imperialism, income inequality, India, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Keith Preston, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marxism, Middle East, Nationalism, NATO, neo-tribalism, Neoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Social Media, terrorism, The Cold War, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

The Geopolitical background of the conflict, the unprovoked narrative, and NATO expansion
How sanctions often fail at their intention of brining about regime change
How the conflict is accelerating geopolitical realignments and the bifurcation between the West and a Eurasian block
The motives and military strategy of the Ukrainian government
Whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have been less likely to have happened under Trump
Neo-McCarthyism, Russo-phobia, and the crackdown on civil liberties
The rise in a convoluted hybrid of American nationalism and woke culture
Worst case scenarios of the war escalating into direct conflict between Russia and the US and NATO
The fragmentation and polarization of American society, enclavism and Bill Bishop’s Big Sort
Supply chain issues and the potential for a global economic crisis

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Robert Stark talks to Guillaume Durocher about Éric Zemmour

Alternative Right, Ancient Greece, California, capitalism, censorship, Class, Classical Liberalism, colonialism, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, decentralization, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Emmanuel Macron, Éric Zemmour, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Europe, European Nationalism, France, Freedom of Speech, Guillaume Durocher, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, IQ, Islam, Islamization, Joe Biden, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marine Le Pen, Media, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Republican Party, Secessionism, Singapore, welfare state

Robert Stark talks to French author Guillaume Durocher about the 2022 French Presidential Election and the campaign of Éric Zemmour. Other topics discussed include Singapore’s politics, rightwing multiculturalism, and biopolitics . Guillaume Durocher has written for a number of dissident publications including The and American Renaissance, and is the author of The Ancient Ethnostate: Biopolitical Thought in Classical Greece. Follow Guillaume on Twitter.

Topics:

Éric Zemmour’s background as a political pundit and comparisons to 2016 Trump
How Zemmour is to the right of his challenger Marine Le Pen on both economics and on issues of nationalism and identity
How Zemmour’s demographic of support tends to be older, more well off, and more conservative than Le Pen’s
Zemmour’s policy proposals including an immigration moratorium, natalist bonuses for rural areas, ending hate speech laws, and cutting off funding for woke NGOs
Polling and projections for the runoff and general election and how it is Macron’s election to lose
Zemmour’s strategy of balancing assimilationism with preserving an “ethnic steady state”
A case for the right to embrace multiculturalism as an alternative to nationalism and assimilationismism
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore as a model for successful multi-ethnic nations
The Secession of French Elites: The Key to Macron’s Success…and Failures

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Poolside Over Politics with Anatoly Karlin

Afghanistan, Africa, Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, automation, Banking, Basic Income, censorship, China, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, cryptocurrency, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, India, Islam, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Ron Unz, Russia, Transgender, Vladimir Putin, War, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Moscow based blogger Anatoly Karlin about his resignation from the Unz Review, current events, geo-political trends, and revisiting political predictions from past podcasts. Check out Anatoly’s new Substack: Powerful Takes and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The Last Reaction: Why Anatoly is returning to his roots as an independent blogger
Anatoly’s assessment of Biden’s presidency
The continuation of countering China as part of  the US foreign policy consensus
The post-pandemic economic recovery, the inflation scare, and risk of crash due to financialization
The pandemic as a test run for UBI and zoomers demanding higher wages
The pollicization of vaccinations (anti-vaxxer Red Tribe in America and Anti-Putin Communists in Russia)
The minimal impact of covid lockdowns on fertility trends and why Anatoly predicts that Germany will have a higher fertility rate than India by 2050
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Why Anatoly embraces The Great Reset but thinks its overhyped
What to expect out of the Woke Culture War
Why Anatoly predicts Biden vs. Trump in 2024, with a Biden victory
Why American politics  are no longer of a concern since Anatoly returned to Russia

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Robert Stark interviews pro-Calexit gubernatorial candidate Louis Marinelli

Bernie Sanders, Calexit, California, censorship, Culture, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Environment, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Immigration, Jonathan Edwards, Louis Marinelli, Media, Moscow, Overpopulation, Police, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Russia, Sacramento , Secessionism, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Taxation, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Jonathan Edwards speak with Louis Marinelli about his campaign for governor (Campaign Site: Calexit Governor). Louis Marinelli is an immigrant from New York to California, a past CA state assembly candidate, now living in Moscow. Louis Marinelli is running for California governor as a Republican in the recall election, as an anti-Washington and anti-Sacramento candidate, to represent the idea of an independent California.

Topics:

Louis’ plan, if elected, to put forth a referendum on independence
The problem of California financially subsidizing other states and US military interventions abroad
The failure of Democratic one-party rule that neglects the state’s needs
The need to recognize free speech on social media as part of the public square of the 21st Century
The need to investigate the cause of the exodus of jobs and citizens out of California and incentivizing people to return
The housing crisis, reforms on zoning and regulations on construction, and incentives for relocation to inland cities
Other platform stances including universal kindergarten, paid maternity leave, parental rights, free higher education, and affordable healthcare
The California cultural center in Moscow
Louis’ interview with ABC News in the Bay Area about his campaign

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Robert Stark interviews California Gubernatorial Candidate Nickolas Wildstar

Calexit, California, censorship, Conservatives, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, decentralization, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, energy, Environment, Jonathan Edwards, Judicial Corruption, Judicial System, Libertarianism, Mass Transit, Nickolas Wildstar, Occupy Wall Street, Police, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Public Banking, Republican Party, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Water, Wealth, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Jonathan Edwards talk to Nickolas Wildstar about his campaign for California Governor in the Recall Election. Nickolas Wildstar is a political activist, rapper, and former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate in 2018 and is running as a Republican.

Topics:

The Recall and Wildstar’s criticism of Governor Newsom’s handling of the budget, economy, and covid lockdown
Wildstar’s Phoenix Initiative to roll back the economic damage of the pandemic including nullifying California Assembly Bill 5 (2019) against independent contractors
Wildstar’s plan to address the housing crisis including 3D printed homes and zoning reform
The Gold New Deal including public banking and publicly owned energy utilities
Criminal justice reform including support for ending qualified immunity
The manufactured cancel culture, tech regulations, and corporate monopoly issues
Wildstar’s vision for a revitalized California GOP
The case for California independence
How Wildstar’s civil rights were violated for recording in court and his proposal to guarantee the right to record in court for Californians

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