CPAC: Milo disinvited, quits Breitbart

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Gross. The sudden Republican obsession with "edginess" is getting to be too much. Trump is a lot of fun. Romney, Ryan, McCain, and Jeb! are boring. But that doesn't mean we have to literally get a pro-rape crypto Nazi to speak just because my party is so emotionally invested in pissing off the other side (which, I admit, is a LOT of fun and very tempting after the eight years we just went through).

I was tempted to go see Milo because of the reactions of the student thugs on FSU, but then I realized that if I let a bunch little wanna-be brownshirts piss me off into putting money into the pocket of an actual brownshirt, everyone would win accept for me.

The worst part about Milo is that he is beloved by the same young Republicans who hated and still hate Trump. The College Republican types. The ones who wear that douchebag combination of khaki pants with a shirt, tie, and blazer to their weekly meetings. The kind who headed the Students for Rubio group on campus. The kind I had to sit with at the GOP debate in Miami. The kind who go to all the Republican club meetings, get the good internships, and have good connections to the Lt. Governor even though they've never walked into a campaign office in their freaking life.

Milo is the God of the "Alt-right" and the "TRUH CONSERVATUHS" of the Reagan/Rubio/Cruz variety, which is fitting because those happen to be the two most vile and most vocal wings of the party aside from the President's twitter.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Let's face it-most young Republicans at CPAC (the "big government sucks" crowd) dress like twelve year olds at their 28 year old half-sisters wedding. Pwning SWJs is all they got.

I think there needs to be a counter-culture on the right that is intellectual but not elitist that can act as both a vanguard for the most ideological activists and the Trumpletariet alike. CPAC is a great tool but it risks becoming a Paul Ryan nerd prom indoctrinating young right-wingers with outdated ideas in the age of Trump.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Let's face it-most young Republicans at CPAC (the "big government sucks" crowd) dress like twelve year olds at their 28 year old half-sisters wedding. Pwning SWJs is all they got.

I think there needs to be a counter-culture on the right that is intellectual but not elitist that can act as both a vanguard for the most ideological activists and the Trumpletariet alike. CPAC is a great tool but it risks becoming a Paul Ryan nerd prom indoctrinating young right-wingers with outdated ideas in the age of Trump.

That's kind of the problem: intellectualism is inherently castigated as elitist by default on the right-wing now. A desire for "non-elitist intellectualism" had no component in the undercurrents that brought Trump to power. Trump and his surrogates cultivate a mindset among their followers that is fundamentally anti-intellectual and more authoritarian/reactionary-minded.

The problem with the intellectual elite is that they tend to think they're the only people capable of intellectual thought. What the Republican Party needs is "popular philosophers" who don't come from Ivy League backgrounds. Aside from her philosophy itself, Ayn Rand's biggest legacy is the fact that she did not have any significant academic background, yet whose theories were debated, cheered, or smeared by the most prominent thinkers of her time. The GOP doesn't need people like Buckley or his newest incarnation, the post-Reagan movement conservatives. We need a totally new direction, one that restores the traditions of Jeffersonian democracy as our guiding principles.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The fall of Milo is welcome news.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Milo is now the new Literally Who

Thank God. He was a toxic cancer that was about to metastasize.