On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I discuss yesterday’s presidential election with the fantastic
(AKA the Zoomer Ryan Faulk).You may remember Seb from his first appearance on the pod earlier this year, during which the two of us got super deep into modern HBD and Sebastian answered several dozen of my most autistic questions in quick succession.
Sebastian recently got Shoah’d on Twitter for calling a groyper a slur, so please give his latest account a follow and help our boy find his frens!
Topics include:
How the election results compared to Walt and Seb’s expectations
How Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign differed from his last two
The Biden factor kept Kamala stuck between a rock and a hard place
What explains Kamala’s infamous word salad? Is she low IQ or just unprepared?
Does high level politics carry less of a cognitive load than academia or media?
Kamala’s looks / race allow her to take the easy way out and grow lazy
The choice of Tim Walz as a running mate—would Shapiro have been better?
Did Trump’s chuddish behavior in the last few weeks drive turnout in the rurals?
Was the 2020 election stolen either explicitly or implicitly ?
GOP conspiracy theories usually have a kernel of truth
Are political scandals a “legitimate” impact on voter behavior?
Trump can agree and amplify his way out of scandals
The Republicans are better at playing dirty because the Dems were used to having hegemonic control over the mainstream media
Trump has neutralized the electoral toxicity of the religious right under a broadly appealing Barstooler ideology
Will 2nd Term Trump be the most powerful person who ever lived?
Trump’s popular following and friendship with Elon and Rogan will give him Augustan levels of political power
Will Trump be able to get anything substantive done without 60 senate seats
How Sebastian feels about Project 2025
Civil service reform and constitutional blockers to cleaning up the deep state
Congress is much more Trumpian now compared to in 2017
Trump is becoming another Reagan-type figure
This time around Trump has competent allies like Elon and Vance
If Trump can’t repeal Obamacare can he remove the Deep State
Is Trump starting to go senile?
It would be ideal if Vance assumed power before Trump cognitively declines
The inherently thermostatic nature of American politics—you need to spend your political with a sensitivity for proper timing
Can Trump actually deport large numbers of illegals?
Will the rightward trend of Hispanics make immigration less politically polarized?
Why modern immigration depresses the national IQ more than the immigration that came in the late 20th century
Will Hispanics show up in these numbers for another Republican or do they just like his caudillo impulses?
- ’s question as to why Mitt Romney was uniquely repellant to nonwhites compared to Trump/Bush/McCain
Did black guys really vote 20% Trump or was that a meme?
White women stayed loyal and weren’t voting purely on abortion
Trump is bringing the country together
The Democrats are going to become the Pro-White Party
Is Post Alt Right endorsement of Kamala authentic or cooning?
The GOP as a “multiracial working class” party
Metamodernism and Hyperstition
Everyone go follow Seb on Twitter and help him find his frens!
The future of Wokism is puritanism and a perverse arrested development (Zoomer girls will raise the age of consent to 25)
Wokism is far more salient in academia than Corporate America (the former has far more true believers than the latter)
Wokism as a cyclical process (civil rights, political correctness, DEI)
The presence of shortcuts and asymmetric life strategies can screw up your hedonic treadmill
