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For many of the conservatives who embraced itu2014myself includedu2014the Trumpian moment promised a more populist, pro-worker GOP. Yet the latest iteration of Donald Trump has dashed these hopes, playing down the themes that propelled his 2016 campaign, and sounding more and more like a conventional Republican nomineeu2014only more erratic. 

In the realm of right-wing ideas, meanwhile, something far grimmer is afoot: the rise of a cohort of writers, pseudo-scholars, and shitposters dedicated to reviving some of the darkest tendencies in the history of thought, including the idolatry of strength (as cartoonishly personified by the likes of Andrew Tate); the notion of supposedly u201Cnaturalu201D hierarchies; IQ-based eugenics; overt racism and antisemitism.

Call them the Barbarian Right: The master subject of this worldview is the Nietzschean barbarian or u201Caristocrat of the spiritu201D who overthrows the egalitarianu2014and essentially feminineu2014structures that have long shackled him, restraining his yearning for adventure and excellence. Nazi apologia is par for the course.

Dubious charges of Nazism are a dime a dozen in U.S. political rhetoric, but I use the term advisedlyu2014and literally: How else to describe Tucker Carlsonu2019s recent interview with Darryl Cooper? In it, the amateur historian argued that Winston Churchill was u201Cthe chief villain of the Second World Waru201D and that the Nazi death camps were the result not of malice, but a logistical mishap: a failure to plan for the Wehrmachtu2019s oversupply of POWs. u201CNazi Germany,u201D Cooper said, u201Claunched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners. [They] went in with no plan for that, and they just threw these people into camps, and millions of people ended up dead.u201D

Carlson, a journalist I used to admire, hailed Cooper as the u201Cbest and most honest popular historian working in the United States today,u201D and lent him the same credulous, uncritical treatment he now seems to reserve for all the crackpots who frequently grace the podcast he hosts on X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter. As Cooper insinuated that unnamed u201Cfinanciersu201D leaned on an indebted Winston Churchill to prolong the war, Carlson didnu2019t bother to ask, To whom, specifically, are you referring, Darryl?u2014like a curious journalist could be expected to do.

Long before he appeared on Carlsonu2019s show, Cooper had made known his nutty views about the Jews as well as his sympathy for the Third Reich. In July, he declared that the Nazi takeover of Franceu2014which resulted in the deportation of 75,000 Jews to concentration and death campsu2014u201Cwas infinitely preferable in virtually every wayu201D than the admittedly offensive drag queen u201CLast Supperu201D staged at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in July. 

Two months earlier, Cooper posted a rant on X in which he urged Christians to u201Creckonu201D with the fact that u201Cno god in any religious tradition is as consistently brutal and bloodthirsty as the Yahweh of the Old Testamentu201Du2014a rehash, in other words, of Marcionism: a second-century gnostic heresy that posited that the God of the Hebrew Bible is a capricious demon and not the God of Jesus. In 2019, Cooper agreed with an online interlocutor that u201Cnon-racist fascistu201D is a u201Cdecent descriptionu201D of his politics.

As of this writing, Carlsonu2019s interview with Cooper has garnered some 26 million views on X, boosted by Elon Musk, who called it u201Cvery interestingu201D and u201Cworth watching.u201D (He later deleted the post.) The denizens of the Barbarian Right space seem to have gotten what they wished for out of the Cooper interview. u201CA lot of good points,u201D said one. u201COnly thing missing is naming the group behind the majority of subversions.u201D Another chimed in: u201CThe mass migration into Europe and America is a Jewish-led operation.u201D

The Barbarian Right ecosystem extends beyond virtual life. Like any (still) fringe movement, itu2019s riven by internal fault lines, making it hard to delineate the various camps. There are the likes of the Groyper sect led by Nick Fuentes and old-fashioned racist-fascist goons. Then there are other strands. Some count among their ranks people who arenu2019t exactly of Viking extraction. One of the Barbarian Rightu2019s leading lights is the Romanian Jewish academic Costin Alamariu (a.k.a. Bronze Age Pervert, or BAP for short).

Generally speaking, the BAPist camp is more urbane and aesthetically minded, with its fans clustered in places like Lower Manhattan and the Bay Area. The core group is made up of academic exiles like BAP and the writer and publisher who goes by Lomez, formerly a writing instructor in the University of California system. The academics are joined by a diverse mix of fashionistas, tech bros, and social scenesters. While they traffic in edgy racial memes and eugenic ideas, they generally eschew crude antisemitism, in part because some of their leading lights, not least BAP and Lomez, are part-Jewish. And thatu2019s just what sets them apart from the likes of the Groypers, for whom the Jews are imagined to be the supreme enemy.

Yet there are shared elements. One common denominator is that the barbarians rarely promote their odious views earnestly or systematically. Rather, they typically advance their beliefs via jokes and by playing around with an existing set of highly mobile memes and symbols. This allows them to preemptively escape serious scrutiny, even as those in the know understand that they really mean it. Thus, when critics of Cooper pointed to a tweet in which he suggested that Hitler is in heaven as evidence of antisemitic animus, the typical response was: Hey, he was just joking.

Another shared element is the pretension to gnosis: the possession by a sort of master or guru of a secret knowledge that u201Ctheyu201D would keep from you. BAP, for example, claims to have unlocked the true secret of classical philosophy: The likes of Plato and Aristotle were most fundamentally concerned with u201Cthe problem of breedingu201Du2014that is, eugenics. Only, you have to know how to read the ancient sages to really get this. 

Steve Sailer, an amateur race scientist, is another of the movementu2019s gurus. His contribution is the art of Noticing (the title of a recently published anthology of his blog posts). By noticing, he means the recognition that hereditary differences among large human groups, delineated by race, give rise to what Sailer calls u201Chuman biodiversity.u201D 

Those willing to venture into this realm of hard racial science notice the deep truths lurking behind mundane realities, such as the fact that u201CBarbados, despite an average IQ of 78, is one of the most pleasant countries in the Third World due to its commitment to maintaining a veddy, veddy English culture.u201D And also: u201CSince there are so many unmarried Asian men and black women, they should find solace for their loneliness by marrying each other. Yet, when was the last time you saw an Asian man and a black woman together?u201D 

Cooper and Carlson likewise feigned a secret knowledge. u201CWeu2019re not allowedu201D to discuss the social and economic misery that led to the rise of Hitler, they claimed at the outset of their interview. It was among the most preposterous claims in a two-hour discussion chock-full of them: Thousands of pages of serious history have been devoted to studying just that.

The third and final element of the Barbarian Right is a revulsion for the mildly egalitarian conservatism that took hold across the West in the postwar period. That conservatism made its peace with the civil rights movement and marginalized Jew-haters. The barbarians cannot stand the resulting state of affairs, since it has meant granting the grubby demands of the u201Cdysgenicu201D many. 

Therefore, they feel compelled to attack what they see as the founding u201Cmythologyu201D of the postwar world, not least of which is that the obvious factu2014even to a third-graderu2014that the Nazis were actually, you know, evil. Hence Cooperu2019s perverse moral inversion, in which Churchill is cast as the u201Cvillain,u201D while Hitler is a victim who was only seeking an u201Cacceptable solution to the Jewish problem.u201D

As Carlsonu2019s Cooper fiasco shows, there is no limit to how far the Barbarian Right will go in seeking to delegitimize the actually existing American order. The rest of usu2014especially those on the right who adhere to the precepts of Abrahamic faith and dare not venture beyond good and evilu2014must say no.

Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of Compact and a contributing writer to The New Statesman. His latest book is Tyranny, Inc. Follow him on X @SohrabAhmari.

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