Sam Francis Was Right

Chronicles magazine ^ | June 2012 | Tom Piatak

[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,

[Dr. Sivana]

Sam Francis, Joseph Sobran, Pat Buchannan, and a couple others were "excommunicated" from The Conservative Movement for allegedly being "antisemitic".

I used to read all three in “The Wanderer”, a Catholic newspaper. Francis made the cut despite being a nonbeliever because of the quality of his writing.

[SharpRightTurn]

I miss Sam Francis a great deal. A real conservative, in the best sense of that term.

[FreedomPoster]

Derbyshire is still writing and is published at the Unz Review, which is *very* politically incorrect.

https://www.unz.com/author/john-derbyshire/

He was of course ejected from National Review for his The Talk column.

The Talk: Nonblack Version
https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/the-talk-nonblack-version/?highlight=Talk

He has had the temerity to talk about black-white racial issues with truth and forthrightness, which Must Not Be Done, according to the Left and the Neocons.

[sauropod]

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[wardaddy]

He’s at Vdare too still I think with Taylor and Gottlieb

Both banned here forever

[Toddsterpatriot]

This one?

[Pelham]

No, that one survived. I was hunting for the one below. But since I’ve been running a 100+ fever for several days confusion is my current state of mind.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/we-were-right-about-immigration/