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Episode 7 : Across the pond with John Arcto (The Anglofuturist)
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Episode 7 : Across the pond with John Arcto (The Anglofuturist)

In today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I am joined by John Arcto, who writes under The Anglofuturist here on Substack.

John is a British Zoomer who came of age during the Gamergate / anti-SJW era and gradually moved right as wokeism came to dominate the left over the past decade.

Topics include:

  • John’s ideological history into the intellectual right wing after the 2019 UK election and never-ending Covid lockdowns

  • Was Boris Johnson the British Trump?

  • British vs. American conservatism

  • Ideological and sectoral coalitions in British politics

  • Declining influence of the British aristocracy

  • John’s nuanced take on Margaret Thatcher

  • British thermostatic political swings vs. continental pluralism

  • Georgism and the land value tax

  • NHS vs. the American health care system

  • Was the 2020 election rigged?

  • Importance of good epistemology for the DR

  • Why Britain has been more resistant to trans ideology

  • Why the Alt Right wasn’t unambiguously anti-gay

  • Obergefell v. Hodges and SCOTUS as only sovereign entity in American politics

  • British conservative desire to remain integrated with mainstream society as a countervailing force to polarization

  • Joseph Chamberlain’s vision of an Imperial Federation

  • British soft power as “Greece to their Rome”

  • Need to avoid a woke British monarch

  • Possibility of Britain becoming a U.S. state

  • Brexit as a proxy for the culture war

  • How Brexit alienated the middle class British youth

  • How Trump’s “bark and no bite” approach was the worst of all worlds

  • Britain needs a Glenn Youngkin approach

  • How Trump repulses the middle class

  • Trump as covert backlash to antidemocratic imposition of gay marriage

  • Why John opposes gay marriage as a metapolitical victory for postmodernism

  • Gay marriage can only be undone with marriage privatization

  • British vs. English nationalism as preventing “thick” concept of identity

  • Need of British anti-woke movement to involve ethnic elites like Ugandan Asian

  • Competition with elite ethnics makes the native population more Faustian

  • Intermarriage has always improved social cohesion and promoted white interests

  • Nordicism is untenable in America

  • Why Latin American immigration hasn’t been as bad as the Right imagined

  • Walt’s argument that globalism has been great for the top quintile in America

  • John’s argument that dollar hegemony has hurt the average American by enabling dysfunctional government policy

  • Walt’s argument that the dollar as a reserve currency is necessary to prevent China from obtaining monetary hegemony

  • The American incentive structure favoring the “mass affluent” at the expense of everyone else

  • John’s argument that WW1 was a waste of resources for Britain

  • Protectionism vs Free Trade

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