Morgan Ariel, one of many online commentators who has recently jumped on the anti-Semitic bandwagon. (Photo from her Instagram.)

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Back in the days of the Alt Right, I used to lament that a movement whose cause was so irrefutably just was filled with so many awful people. It wasn’t everyone or even a majority of the Alt Right, but you couldn’t walk a few feet in it without bumping into a narcissistic sociopath, a drug addict, a degenerate, or some other type of anti-social personality type.

But what could we do? If one has ideas that will cost one everything if publicly expressed, then it stands to reason that a high percentage of the people willing to express such ideas are going to be those with nothing to lose. It also stands to reason that because getting involved in White Nationalism is very high in risk, many who get involved in it are going to be risk-taking personalities who also engage in other types of high-risk behavior such as drug use, deviant sex, petty crime, and so on.

Given these realities and the fact that you’d have to be at least a little crazy to want to get involved with White Nationalism, I resigned myself at the time to gritting my teeth and putting up with the crazies, at least for the time being. But it was always my hope that things wouldn’t always be like that. As the Overton window shifts and our ideas gradually became more mainstream, I believed, professing White Nationalism would become lower in risk and thus attract a newer type of person — a more stable and neurotypical type of person who didn’t have a social death wish.

The mainstreaming and Overton window-shifting I long hoped for is now upon us. Since Elon’s takeover of Twitter/X, topics such as the Great Replacement and criticism of Jews has been totally normalized — at least on Right-wing Twitter/X. This process has accelerated exponentially since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza conflict on October 7. Over the last year or so we have seen several high-profile personalities enter the dissident Right’s fray. Charlie Kirk is now a spokesman for white identitarianism, Candace Owens is talking about Jews, and former mixed martial arts champ Jake Shields is now one the Internet’s most prominent anti-Zionists.

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As I hoped, these people are, on average, less anti-social and autistic than the kinds of people the Alt Right attracted, and present as normal. That’s good and necessary if our ideas are going to climb out of the underground gutter. What I did not consider was the possibility that in the process of mainstreaming, these new people would have new kinds of problems. After all, we are dealing with individuals who only started saying the right things after it became totally safe to do so. Better late than never, but it does call into question their character, moral fortitude, and possibly even their sincerity. So let’s look at some of those who have moved closer to our circles recently.

Former rapper and bounty hunter Stew Peters has been gunning for Alex Jones’ position as the #1 conspiracy theorist in America in recent years. He saw a surge in popularity during the COVID crisis by promoting the wackiest conspiracy theories, which earned him half a million subscribers on Rumble. Peters could fairly be described as Alex Jones on steroids. Whereas Jones said that the COVID vaccine would kill you, Peters insisted that it included microscopic tentacled creatures that were going to transform people into monsters.

Peters was all “Deep State this” and “globalists that” for years, but he has recently rebranded to “Zionists this” and “Jews that.” It’s especally interesting given that as recently as last year, he fired groyper Dalton Clodfelter from his network for promoting anti-Semitism.

I searched his Twitter/X history and found that the first two times he referenced Jews was in March 2023. The first is a quoted tweet from Brian Krassenstein where he wrote: “Oh look, a virtue-signaling atheist non-practicing Jew using the Bible to try and justify demonically possessed perverts having access to your kids.” It appears that his grievance with Krassenstein was that he is non-Christian, not so much that he is a Jew. A couple of weeks later, he quoted one of Krassenstein’s tweets again, writing that Soros “worked for the Nazis and turned in his fellow Jews.”

Holocaust survivor? He worked for the Nazis and turned in his fellow Jews… https://t.co/4PcSC68Ge7

— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 20, 2023

Oh look, a virtue-signaling atheist non-practicing Jew using the Bible to try and justify demonically possessed perverts having access to your kids. https://t.co/uv0oNSM3WG

— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 4, 2023

During the summer of 2023, Peters made some more references to Jews as being atheists, and then in August he began making more and more Judeo-critical statements. August 2023 also marked the first time he used the word “Zionist” (aside from a 2021 tweet where he quoted someone else calling Tucker Carlson a Zionist). His anti-Semitism picked up throughout the #BantheADL campaign, and after October 7 he completely rebranded his show by making anti-Zionism its central feature. He went from “tentacle monsters in the vax” to Culture of Critique seemingly overnight.

Now let’s meet Morgan Ariel. Ariel was a dime-a-dozen Christian conservathot and former Turning Point USA (TPUSA) brand ambassador. Now she is 34 and it is getting harder for her to keep up with all the new conservathots cuties coming off the TPSUA assembly line. So in January, she suddenly jumped on the post-October 7 anti-Semitism bandwagon. She can’t be the hottest conservathot anymore, but by golly, she can be the edgiest. She was swiftly dismissed from TPUSA for saying that Zionist Jews rule the world. Those who say that Jews want to control all sides of an argument aren’t kidding. Jews won’t even let us have our own anti-Semitic Christian tradthots. They have to control that, too.

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