Clarifying My Beliefs and Moving Forward
I think it should be more than obvious to anyone who has watched the entire context of the interview that Joe Kent and I are not white nationalists or Anti-Semites. But since it’s back in the news, I’ll address this interview and other incidents in this thread.
In March of 2023, I interviewed Joe Kent. My primary motive for the interview was to speak to him about his tweets claiming that “Christianity isn’t a winning strategy.” A position that, to this day, I hold to be false.
What happened, though, was a series of mistakes in ways and for reasons I intend to outline here. What Joe Kent and I spoke about included Nick Fuentes, Identity Politics, Nuanced Foreign Relations, and American History—too many complicated topics in too short of time.
Any attempt at drawing Joe Kent to Nick Fuentes or a broader white nationalist movement is a bald-faced lie. Joe Kent is a war veteran, a father, and a normal-functioning adult. His campaign was harassed and bombarded at every turn by white nationalists. https://www.chronline.com/stories/white-nationalists-dominate-discussion-at-joe-kent-town-hall,285927 Including a website developed and funded by Nick Fuentes, foolishly claiming that JoeKentisCIA. There are also the billboards they put up attacking Joe Kent and their efforts of heckling and harassing him at in-person events. Clearly, Joe Kent is hated by these people.
I personally detest Nick Fuentes and everything he stands for. At the time, I was wrong to defend Nick Fuentes as “just making jokes”, I was wrong to assume that he didn’t hate Jewish people, and I was wrong to assume that he was a Christian. He’s clearly not. Any association that I might be perceived to have with Nick is false. I went to the Million Maga March, I heard him speak, but I’ve never spoken to him, I’ve never colluded with anyone from his cult, and I detest them.
Joe Kent and I spoke about Identity Politics as well. Religious and Racial identity topics came up. Before I begin on this issue, my view of America is the same view of America that Russell Kirk and Pat Buchanan hold: America is a multi-racial, mono-cultural society. There are undeniable attacks on white people in America. In academia, the news industry, and within government institutions. De-boosting white applicants in college or when hiring for a job. General statements from politicians like Ilhan Omar claiming that white men are the biggest threat to this country. Or vows by leftists to destroy “Whiteness.” This rhetoric and the subsequent actions from the left are extremely harmful, but I didn’t talk about these issues in a mature way, which requires a nuanced explanation like I should have. People need to advocate for their own safety and their own protection in America. If harm or injustice is being committed against them, they have a right to organize and advocate for themselves politically, whether they be black, white, Asian, or Hispanic. That does not necessitate they want to commit injustice on other groups, which is often the
implication of what people like Tim Miller write. Any claim that I, or Joe Kent, or any of my colleagues are white nationalists is just ludicrous. No one is arguing for a white ethnostate. No one is arguing that white people should be treated more favorably by the government. What I said in the interview was why our country prioritizes the needs of illegals over the needs of those people who are already American citizens. Of course, bad faith actors like Tim Miller would try to take this to mean that I’m a white nationalist because he’s a washed-up Comms staffer who had his role as white house press secretary stolen from him by Donald Trump.
We also spoke about Israel. The claim here is that I’m an Anti-Semite or Anti-Zionist. That couldn’t be further from the truth. What Joe Kent and I discussed was the term Judo-Christian.
When the live stream chat began asking about Joe Kent’s use of the term “Judo-Christian.” I told him that the live stream chat would like him to explain that term, “specifically the Judo part.” I believe that Jewish Americans are a part of America; any suggestion otherwise is foolish. The values that America was founded on are Western Christian values informed by Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. There is no subtraction from that.
That basically covers the issues that we addressed in the interview. I made mistakes; I’m owning up to them. Over the last two years, I’ve significantly matured in my relationship with Christ, professionally and intellectually. People can attest to this in my personal and professional life. If I could go back and re-do the interview, I wouldn’t do it. The general immaturity I displayed and my lack of understanding of many of these topics prove that I wasn’t fit for it. I don’t believe that it was the responsible thing to do.
Ultimately, I was prideful; I was in a bad place. I wanted attention from people online, and I wanted to be a “political commentator.” This is a massive problem; many young guys don’t know how to get started in politics, but they’re interested in it. They want to make a difference, but they don’t know how.
So what do they do? They just start engaging immaturely online; it’s what I did, and in ways that will have repercussions in the future. If I had an outlet two years ago for my political action, then I don’t believe I would have done this interview. But I didn’t even know where to start looking. This is why organizations like @bullmooseproj are so important. They give young, disaffected people a tangible outlet and entry into something greater that they might otherwise be missing