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
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 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
Episode 30 : Castizo Futurism and California Nationalism with Robert Stark