In today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I talk to Lord Robert Stark of California.
Robert is a politically homeless “radical centrist” who was adjacent to the Alt Right back in the day and interviewed a lot of my friends on YouTube. Today he maintains his longtime podcast, The Stark Truth, and is also a prolific writer here on Substack.
Topics include:
- Robert’s political trajectory coming out of the Ron Paul movement into a
- Robert’s Jewish heritage
- His thoughts on the political position of American Jews since the Gaza War
- How the boredom of the Biden years has created a less tense environment
- Robert Stark’s meeting with Richard Hanania
- How recent years have driven a wedge between the Left and Liberals
- How antiwhiteness led to an explosion of antisemitism on the Left
- Has the boundary between Jews and whites blurred over the past few years?
- How Walt was able to mainstream himself without denouncing the Alt Right
- The tenability of Right Wing Multiculturalism / Castizo Futurism
- How comfortable is Walt with immigration?
- The resentment towards Brahmin Indians growing in Silicon Valley
- How Walt sees outward-looking, expansive multiculturalism as more Pro-White
- White people in America need to form the same ethnic patronage networks as immigrant ethnic groups
- How Walt misjudged the Midwest
- Phoenix, AZ as “20 years behind LA”
- Arizona vs. Florida vs. California
- Libertarianism vs. Leftism of White Californians
- Newsom’s two year Covid lockdown
- Walt’s childhood memories of California
- California as an American “promised land” and the most beautiful place on earth
- California as an important cultural counterbalance to East Coast dominance
- DeSantis’s efforts to position Florida as the new California
- Why did DeSantis fail?
- Brain drain from San Francisco to Miami
- Why has Florida supplanted Texas as the conservative hub?
- The decentralized modern Dissident Right vs. the old Alt Right
- Was Nick Fuentes an effective leader in the post-Charlottesville years?
- The “Post-Left” Dimes Square / Red Square crowd
- Walt’s prioritization of metapolitically “opening doors” for new discussions
- Why are Hispanics in California/Arizona more leftist than in Florida/Texas?
- Is Castizo Futurism more tenable in Florida / Texas than California?
- Chicano Nationalism / “Aztlan” radicalism in the southwest as having contributed to Walt and Robert’s ingroup sentiment
- Central American crime refugees and Bukele’s mass incarceration policy
- How personal temperament impacts a person’s politics
- The median Alt Righter was actually less racist on a visceral level than the average ”colorblind” conservative
- Colorblindness is responsible for the worst of the Left and the Right
- Moral implications of belief in HBD
- How much should you talk about HBD?
- Walt doesn’t accept Emil’s study that HBD is more taboo than pedophilia
- How the Gaza War and extremist left wing antisemitism has expanded the Overton Window and enabled honest discussion of the JQ
- Respects in which Walt is right wing
- Respect for natural hierarchy as more honest than leveling
- Respect for differentiation
- Vitalism and support for struggle
- Love for conflict and competition
- Heteronormativity and disdain for Handsome Thursdays
- Opposition to thick notion of free will and support for paternalistic incentive structures to encourage better behavior
- Walt’s centrism on abortion and hatred for prolife maximalists
- Robert’s futurist concept of distributism
- Immigration restriction basically requires mass automation
- Walt’s idea for a “grand bargain” where illegal immigrants are given legal status in exchange for guarantee that they will never be given the franchise
- Right wing urbanism—comparing the Miami-Orlando line with San Francisco-Los Angeles line
- NIMBYism as historical obstacle to urbanism
- How to make YIMBYism prowhite?
- Do you need restricted covenants etc. to sell YIMBYism to suburbanites?
- Could you incentivize olds abandoning suburban homes to allow development?
- Is NIMBYism necessary to prevent a mass brain drain from the interior?
- Robert Stark’s support for “vertical lebensraum”
- Gentrification as the future of the right and opposite of white flight
- Walt’s desire for a “High Openness Right” that resembles the early Alt Right
- Why conservatives suck at art
- HBO’s Girls and The Sopranos as conservative art
- Painting as a metaphor for ethno-pluralism
- Robert Stark’s stance on AI Art
- How Walt used Disney songs to explain the Alt Right, and how this resembles how Lin Manuel Miranda’s use of rap to explain the Founding Fathers
- Mufasa was a bad ruler
- How key changes are used to create an emotional impact in music, especially show tunes and 80s music
- Cultural differences between the 80s and 70s
- Why do the 80s resonate with Millennial guys so much?
- Is Richard Spencer 80s and Jared Taylor 70s?
- Walt’s pro-white argument for reparations
- Walt’s support for animal rights and lab grown meat
- Will future societies look back on factory farms the same way we look at slavery?
- How the North was just as responsible for slavery as the South
- The Civil War was fought for white nationalist reasons
- High IQ people need a self-selected bubble where they don’t have to “hold frame”
- We’re not all gonna make it—that’s just part of being a man
- The modern world is much better for high IQ autistic guys like Walt and Robert
- How Tinder increased the incel rate from 15% to 30%
- How OkCupid was a much better dating platform for men than Tinder
- Tinder model is based on Grindr model, doesn’t work for straights
- Middle tier of guys are the ones being hurt by Tinder but won’t turn against Tinder because it has a low prestige “incel stink”
- What makes someone “smart but poor?” What is Walt’s advice for this demo?
- Building an income on Substack—Walt and Robert’s strategies
- How building a social media presence is like feudalism
