For many, they are seeing for the first time a new nationalism that has surged in the past few months, though it has always been present in some form for the past few decades. This nationalism is core to Trump’s appeal, and the left correctly sees it as a threat to their vast social projects.

In modern America, national renewal is a motivating force for a great swathe of Americans. They are more compelled by a national mission than they are by economic factors or by cultural ties. Hollywood cannot define a national mission; as an institution, it operates under the illusion that national identity is obsolete. To be a nationalist is to be a collectivist, also. Communities are stronger than individuals in ensuring survival, and the most powerful community on the planet is the USA, even if some people cannot see it. It is important to organise as a nation, specifically, because the threats that Americans face are global, and neither Ohio alone nor an HOA in Texas can face a migrant horde or a collection of global enemies chomping at the bit to bring America down.

It is important to note, too, that a nation is not simply a community. Then it would be a fluid beast, and what comes out of it wouldn’t matter, for the next generation would create something entirely new relative to the last, or nothing at all. Communities don’t have to be productive or have any productive capacity to survive, but a nation does. That is because within a nation, one generation is not disconnected from the last, but instead builds upon the inheritance of their ancestors. A nation cannot have men and women without common ancestry to a patriotic generation, for they will build separately from and in opposition to the native population they are joining. Every nation is a culture, and that cultural inheritance is to be nurtured, especially in America.

I don’t know that the culture of Arabians ought to be preserved; that is for history to discern, but I know that the Christian America that once existed cannot be cast aside into history forever, but is to be inherited and have new life breathed into it. Ultimately, I believe America has been an immense force for good in the world, and I hope to expound on a theory of American nationalism. For the Somalians reading, find a Somalian Mencius Moldbug to read, and for the Italians, dust off your Enrico Corradini. Though I don’t dream of entering the pantheon that holds such thought leaders, I do hope to transcribe what I know and have taken from men like these.

Both community and culture must intersect because one protects the other. I don’t need to tell this audience how the erosion of American culture over the past 100 years has been detrimental to society. Depression lurks around college campuses for its next victim, and even high schools are infested with mental illnesses. Children grow up without a mother and father, and those that do throw church to the side and ignore the teachings of both Jesus Christ and James Madison. In some cases, this is ignorance; in others, spite. Either way, fewer and fewer people are instructed on how to live a fulfilling life, and they end up looting or shooting those who are trying to live their best lives. Nation-wide problems require nation-wide solutions. People travel, nobody is held down to their neighbourhood or their state any more. Pioneers used to travel west and they’re considered heroes for their courage. Today, I could settle in California or Maine, and it wouldn’t really matter which I chose, I could make it to both with a single plane ticket (maybe a few layovers to get to Maine, I can’t imagine they have a Ronald Reagan of their own). It’s no good if everyone in Utah is upright and moral, the State they love will change as Californians flood in. The children of the righteous people of Utah will be taught by the same people who ruined California, and even with enough money to avoid those school districts and those neighbourhoods, the moral Utah citizen is only having the walls close in on his family, slowly but surely. They have to find a way out, but when you’re a rugged individualist, suddenly your morals and your ideas don’t matter once you’re in the minority. Your grandchildren’s teachers won’t care what you believe; your grandchildren will be taught to be immoral and indecent in public school because the nation is immoral and indecent.

Why, then, turn to nationalism at this juncture? Before your small community is changed forever, you can make a choice. You can try and work towards, with your fellow Americans, passing on a decent society to those that haven’t yet been born. Only a nation fighting for what it believes to be right can achieve such an end. America needs a national purpose because all men and women need a purpose. The energy you put into nagging new members of your HOA should serve the country, not yourself. Ultimately, with a strong national leader, it can become one’s self-interest to work for the nation. America today has such a leader, and it is true to democracy for everyone to fall in line. Democracy and a national purpose don’t work when everyone wants to be the general. What is an army without soldiers? We must take up our arms and follow the commands of our general. We have the political will not to carry out every order, but we have no will if we fight each order. A nation split in two cannot carry itself to victory. It may seem that our national will guides us to a rejuvenation of moral order, but that is a tall task. For now, our nation yearns for its citizens to be first within its borders.

The people of America must accept that there is a fifth column marching through cities across the country. These are people who tell us America is not a community in one breath and in the next that it is the most vile community to have ever existed. Depending on how repugnant they are, they’ll even add that they’re an American and that they’re ashamed of it. Truly, these people are Americans in many circumstances. They come from Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico, and it is to those countries they must be returned. While they slander our home, the United States, they have abandoned theirs in favour of taking over ours. A national mission now must be to restore political order. How can a nation correct itself if its existence is in doubt? Those who do not know our history denigrate it, and those who are not a part of our country steal from it. This is our mission today because we sense, intuitively, that it must be done so that we may survive.

The actions that are required of us are not to be undertaken by a spontaneous eruption of action. Instead, a leader must do his duty and seize the national sentiment so it may be turned into action. It can be carried out by an elite that understands why America is suffering, and that wants to see it healed. Too many of our current rulers see an America that is divided into ethnicities, or incomes, or education levels, and they have treated America as such. America deserves leaders who will unite these disparate elements into one unified bloc, working for the advancement of the whole. Many will throw up their arms in despair, for they are no longer a privileged class; others will fight back because a weakened America is better for their bottom line. These groups can be forged into a political force that looks out for America, not just themselves, or they can be left behind. Their neighbourhoods will fracture, and their offshored industries will fail to be profitable in the US.

True nationalism calls for a transformation of society- Americans will be put first, and everyone else will be put away. America will be at the forefront of any new technology, to ensure a global order that has been preying on America since the mid-20th Century doesn’t turn on us for putting American interests first over global capital. It wouldn’t be in America’s best interest to withdraw from the world, however, as it is easier to shape global politics from within than without. We will, however, always put America first.

In a vacuum, these principles can be applied, but as of right now, we are in the moment in which they must be. We have our leader, and we choose to follow him because America needs a leader, and badly. Unfortunately, we do not have an aristocracy of our own ready to seize Washington and take the place of the old regime. It is imperative, therefore, that we keep pushing for national renewal, because at any second the elite could crank up its resistance even higher. Already, the judiciary is making itself a tyranny of 1000s of vassals, all under the lordship of left-wing ideology. The Congress, though nominally Republican, is a breeding ground for elite power. As of right now, it is used to block Trump and displace democracy. America as a nation has been on a decline, and it is time for a regime change at the very top to the very bottom of political power. As soon as the President calls on me, I’m ready to seize.