The cuckoo's nest

“Cuckservative: How `Conservatives' Betrayed America” is a book by Vox Day with a preface by Mike Cernovich. The weird insult “cuckservative” refers to conservatives who are cheated (cuckolded) by liberals and leftists. Vox Day sounds politically eclectic, but cold perhaps be classified as a White nationalist, or a White nationalist ally, since the author is part-American Indian. Many people suspect that the co-author John Red Eagle doesn't really exist, being another one of Vox Day´s pseudonyms. I don't know much about Cernovich, expect that he has something to do with the so-called neo-masculinist movement.

“Cuckservative” deals mostly with immigration and race. Vox opposes immigration to the United States, which he sees as a historically Anglo-Saxon nation. This ethno-nationalist perspective makes the author skeptical even of immigrants from other European nations, beginning with the Pennsylvania Germans. The 1965 immigration act, which permitted large scale “Third World” immigration, is presumably even worse, since Vox believes that racial differences in IQ or behavior are real. In plain English, African immigration lowers the average IQ level of White nations!

While the ethno-nationalist case against immigration and immigrants is the author's real one, he also uses two other lines of argument. One is economic: both free immigration and free trade destroys jobs and drives down wages in the United States. Interestingly, Vox therefore opposes both forms of free movement. American right-wingers usually favor free trade, even when they oppose immigration. The other is political. Vox argues that mass migration is virtually always a prelude to war, as it was in the Roman Empire (when Germanic tribes moved across the limes) or even the United States (when White settlers moved onto the land of American Indians). Multi-ethnic co-existence is possible, but only under autocratic regimes or in societies with a powerful “thought police”, and even then, immigration will eventually destroy the delicate balance. In an appendix, Vox Day points out that 30% of the U.S. population is Hispanic, seeing them as a powerful irredentist force on Mexico's behalf.

Regardless of whether you agree with The Supreme Dark Lord (as Vox Day calls himself on Twitter) or not, his book is well written. The worst chapter deals with Christian theology and attempts to argue that Jesus would have opposed immigration, a problematic position to say the least. The Gospel isn't an election manifesto, the Roman Empire was multi-ethnic and the only time the Bible mentions migrant rights, it takes a stance in favor of the migrant!

I'll give “Cuckservative” four stars, not because I necessarily agree with its views or ethno-talk, but because it's a good introduction to the right-wing anti-immigrant case or cause. And yes, it even explains – almost in passing – the meaning of the title word…