On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I discuss the history of the American South with ringleader, a heritage southerner who describes himself as politically and philosophically Jeffersonian.
ringleader runs dog and pony show here on Substack—be sure to give him a follow!
Also read two of my articles that are discussed in this episode:
Per ringleader’s recommendation, also check out Is Davis a Traitor?
Topics include:
ringleader’s Jeffersonian ideology and perspective on revolutionary-era struggles
Why weren’t the Founders more forward-looking on slavery?
Northern complicity in slavery and interconnectedness of American economy
Differences in the culture and interests of the Upland South vs. Lowland South
Why did Virginia and Tennessee join the CSA?
Andrew Jackson and the Nullification Crisis
Lincoln and Jackson were both 19th century nation builders
Henry Clay and the Great Triumvirate
Henry Clay saved America
Jefferson’s vision of America as a conglomeration of “sister republics”
Disproportionate southern power during the antebellum era
The Civil War was over the fate of the West
White northerners during the Civil War were mostly White Nationalists
What proportion of southerners had slaves?
The South was a vestige of medieval England
The American Civil War was downstream of the English Civil War
Westboro Baptist Church is downstream of Puritanism
Parallelism between black slavery and Jewish slavery in the bible
Making the Civil War “about slavery” is exploitative to black people
Reconstruction under Radical Republicans was about humiliation / domination
Walt has a soft spot for McClellan—Grant was a butcher
Lincoln was a moderate in terms of Reconstruction
We don’t think of successful conspiracies as “conspiracy theories”
John Wilkes Booth was stupid and empowered New England fanatics/grifters
The USA post 1876 was a legitimate successor state to the CSA
The “haunted” quality of the Deep South
Folk oral tradition of the South
The hustling entrepreneurialism of the New South
Cancellation of Paula Deen
Walt’s reparations proposal
Black reaction videos and the Based Black Guy
Intersection of class and race creates bigger problems
Racism is associated with ignorant uneducated people because poor white people are the main ones who suffer from diversity
Liberals hate HBD because they think morality comes from intelligence
How to talk to black people about HBD
Reconstruction didn’t help black people because it marginalized white southern Borderers and was too vindictive / sadistic / self-sabotaging
Black shift away from Democrat party
Jack Kemp’s attempt to convert black people to the GOP with economic opportunity zones
#Chudservative contempt for cultural and government power
Young men need better role models—Richard Spencer was a much better leader in this sense than Nick Fuentes
“Fuck you, I got mine” attitude of successful men on the right
We’re building an online intellectual aristocracy
The tradition of southern intellectualism—the little old man in the museum
The need for a more holistic and historically contextualized teaching of slavery
Episode 17 : Dixie and Historical Narratives with ringleader