I’m sorry, but I still appreciate James Lindsay and always will. To the extent that he appears paranoid, it’s because we are in an environment of paranoia induced by Machiavellian infiltrators who lie about their beliefs and intentions. It’s John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ playing out in the movement. He knows that I think he can be too trigger-happy and make enemies unnecessarily, but everyone has an important role in this movement. Some of us are coalition builders, and some are here to sniff out infection. And there is a real infection taking root. I do believe there is a very dark, anti-Christ, anti-American movement trying to take over the Right. Much of it has weird crossover with Claremont, for some reason. It has infiltrated even the beloved Federalist. Sean Davis in particular seems to have lost all hope in God and in our American way. The whole network behaves like a cult. Many of its favored political philosophers, from Schmitt to Evola, are Nazis or occultists themselves. They are Machiavellian in their methods. They are elitists in the worst way. Now, I have no problem with these people voting with me; any help in defeating the Left is welcome. But I don’t want them defining the American Right, because I firmly believe they are antithetical to everything the American Right should stand for. And they will destroy the American Right. And I'm not saying everyone in this network is bad; in fact, I think most of them are good, well-meaning people, and many of them are simply defending their friends against “James the belligerent pugilist” on the internet. I know many of them, and I know they aren't villains. And I know Lindsay's way sometimes has the effect of pushing away the good people who could be won over. Right now, it feels like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. People we know, love, and respect keep getting taken over. These esoteric political philosophers have real power. Carl Schmitt in particular has a darkly spiritual way of rewiring people's brains. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was originally conceived as an allegory for Communist infiltration. When one of the few remaining humans is saying, "your neighbor is really an alien!" of course, that person will look crazy. Machiavellians create an environment of paranoia, which sometimes leads to innocent people being accused of getting "taken over." They count on that, because it helps them discredit the one person who is on to them. But that doesn't change the fact that people like James Lindsay are onto something here, and I wish good people on the Right would engage with it seriously instead of circling the wagons as if this were some high school clique. Pray urgently for our nation and for the movement to save it.