In today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I am joined by John Arcto, who writes under The Anglofuturist here on Substack.
John is a British Zoomer who came of age during the Gamergate / anti-SJW era and gradually moved right as wokeism came to dominate the left over the past decade.
Topics include:
John’s ideological history into the intellectual right wing after the 2019 UK election and never-ending Covid lockdowns
Was Boris Johnson the British Trump?
British vs. American conservatism
Ideological and sectoral coalitions in British politics
Declining influence of the British aristocracy
John’s nuanced take on Margaret Thatcher
British thermostatic political swings vs. continental pluralism
Georgism and the land value tax
NHS vs. the American health care system
Was the 2020 election rigged?
Importance of good epistemology for the DR
Why Britain has been more resistant to trans ideology
Why the Alt Right wasn’t unambiguously anti-gay
Obergefell v. Hodges and SCOTUS as only sovereign entity in American politics
British conservative desire to remain integrated with mainstream society as a countervailing force to polarization
Joseph Chamberlain’s vision of an Imperial Federation
British soft power as “Greece to their Rome”
Need to avoid a woke British monarch
Possibility of Britain becoming a U.S. state
Brexit as a proxy for the culture war
How Brexit alienated the middle class British youth
How Trump’s “bark and no bite” approach was the worst of all worlds
Britain needs a Glenn Youngkin approach
How Trump repulses the middle class
Trump as covert backlash to antidemocratic imposition of gay marriage
Why John opposes gay marriage as a metapolitical victory for postmodernism
Gay marriage can only be undone with marriage privatization
British vs. English nationalism as preventing “thick” concept of identity
Need of British anti-woke movement to involve ethnic elites like Ugandan Asian
Competition with elite ethnics makes the native population more Faustian
Intermarriage has always improved social cohesion and promoted white interests
Nordicism is untenable in America
Why Latin American immigration hasn’t been as bad as the Right imagined
Walt’s argument that globalism has been great for the top quintile in America
John’s argument that dollar hegemony has hurt the average American by enabling dysfunctional government policy
Walt’s argument that the dollar as a reserve currency is necessary to prevent China from obtaining monetary hegemony
The American incentive structure favoring the “mass affluent” at the expense of everyone else
John’s argument that WW1 was a waste of resources for Britain
Protectionism vs Free Trade
Episode 7 : Across the pond with John Arcto (The Anglofuturist)