Posted on 12/25/2024 12:31:33 PM PST by Pelham
It has been seven years since Sam Francis died. But the years since his death merely show the accuracy of his insights. Francis’s writing was marked not only by loyalty to the people from whom he came but by an unswerving devotion to telling the truth about the way the world really is, not the way he wished it to be.
Francis knew that it was not “morning again in America” but far closer to midnight. Conservatives could not hope to achieve anything by defending elites, as conservatives have done since the French Revolution, since today’s elites are implacably hostile to all that conservatives wish to conserve. As Francis wrote in this magazine in 1994, “what really demands a radical challenge from the right” is “the domination of a hostile ruling class that uses state power to entrench itself and wreck the country, the culture and the middle class itself.” Elsewhere, Francis was even blunter: “The conservatives . . . who remain need to understand that the people and forces now in power in this country—in government, the culture, and Big Business—are the enemies of the real America and the real civilization of the West.” Francis also recognized, as he wrote in 1993, that the institutions that most American conservatives have trusted are simply not up to the task:
there is virtually no reason to think that either the Republican party establishment or the neo-conservative intelligentsia or for that matter most of the mainstream conservative establishment either wants or is able to mount an effective challenge to the dominant cultural apparatus of the left in this country.
Since then, “the Republican party establishment,” “the neo-conservative intelligentsia,” and “most of the mainstream conservative establishment” have turned themselves into cheerleaders for Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and now Mitt Romney,
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Sam Francis ping
Thanks for the ping.
I learned so much reading him.
Make straight the way of the Bad Orange Man.
Remarkable .an
Chronicles us a Remarkable journal.
I am not a republican.
I am a conservative.
Exactly.
Those of us reading Sam Francis 30 yrs ago recognized what we were hearing from Donald Trump in 2015 and could hardly believe our chance had arrived.
There is an important difference.
Chronicles was so far ahead of its time. I began reading it in the mid ‘80s and quickly realized that they discussed what National Review was ignoring even then.
I can’t remember ever hearing of this guy.
“telling the truth about the way the world really is, not the way he wished it to be.”
Wait a minute here.... Sam was a negative Nellie? A Debbie Downer?
Their real crime was being correct.
“Conservatives could not hope to achieve anything by defending elites”
Interesting to think about. I used to defend Pharma, shoe and beer companies. ‘Tards use to rail against them. Told me they wanted to kill people and only cared about making a buck (imagine that, wanting to kill the people buying their product).
Then I found out that they actually did want to kill me and castrate my kids and they don’t care at all about making a buck. The ‘tards found out at the same time, and all of a sudden started liking these companies.
It’s like the whole world went through the portal into the 5th dimension.
He forgot GHWB, Reagan's worst mistake, right up there with Kennedy, O'Connor, and amnesty for border security.
Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A. by Samuel Francis, July 1994
"Anarcho-tyranny is a social condition characterized by a combination of anarchy and tyranny, where the government is simultaneously ineffective at enforcing laws against criminal behavior and overly oppressive against law-abiding citizens."
Surprised I’ve never heard of this guy. Just ordered “Shots Fired” on Kindle. Looks like he did some essays re James Burnham too.
Thanks for sharing that important piece of information.
Yes, in the sense that when arguing with fools, (even those who likely agree with me 75-80% of the time otherwise) I end up watching said fools perform the act of which I speak. Sometimes Israel is the recipient, other times, figuratively, I am the intended target.
He predicted someone like Trump in that 1994 Essay. He also worked for Pat Buchanan in his 1992 Presidential Run and in retrospect Buchanan would have been a pretty good President for us.
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