Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

Ancaps became white nationalists because they realized the institutions that would form spontaneously in a stateless society would mirror racially separated prison gangs. Murray Rothbard, for ex, supported both the Black Panthers and neo-Confederates for accelerationist reasons.

Some examples of great scholarship on this subject include Mark Weiner's "The Rule of the Clan," and "Persecution and Toleration" by @ndjohnson and @MarkKoyama https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-and-jewish-emancipation/ …

This frames why I find current trends so troubling. US institutions are unusually fragile, while the liberal core of American elite ideology is being succeeded by something new based in racial consciousness. Whatever its merits, it is feeding into the accelerationists' playbook.

This isn't to draw any kind of moral equivalence. But remember, Rothbard wasn't motivated by white nationalism per se. Rather, he saw ethnically laden right-wing populism as a means to an end, foreseeing a counter-reaction that would accelerate the legitimacy crisis doom loop.

This is happening in the background of a pandemic, 20% unemployment, America's decline as a superpower, partial deglobalization, a secular Great Awakening, and a digital media revolution with seismic repercussions on the perceptions of both political and corporate authorities.