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The classic “stages of grief” are swiftly shifting gears. The loss of the pivotal leader of college conservatives has stirred many a student to finally join the fight to reclaim America, and free their student bodies from the grip of WOKE collectivism.
The outpouring of interest is not limited to Turning Point USA’s brand of compelling dialogue, education, debate, training and, most importantly, voter turnout. Many of the students seek a more action-oriented approach. They see the sun rapidly setting on our Constitutional Republic, the American Dream, and their place in it. They understand the vital need to inform, debate and convince their fellow students, but they want to do more.
They want to take the argument to those they see as subverting their chances for a secure, prosperous and meaningful life based on the traditional American values of GOD, Family, Liberty and Nation.
Well before Charlie Kirk ventured onto the campus of Utah Valley University, a very precocious group of Connecticut high school and college students were busy launching “American Destiny,” a potent new action-oriented student organization, whose mission is to expose and engage the enemies of our traditions and liberties where they are – particularly on college campuses.
If Kirk and TP-USA led the way by forcing Left-occupied campuses to recognize and respect conservative opinions via debate, American Destiny seeks to expose those who are responsible for the WOKE authoritarian takeover of Academia.
Before we outline just who those authoritarians are and how American Destiny plans to confront them, we should understand that what is now being recognized as “the Kirk Effect” is part of an ongoing evolution of thought on the Right that can be seen as a series of Movements.
By “Movements” we do not mean this or that political group or single-issue focus. We are referring to the ancillary and contingent “groups” that form in its wake. While aligned with overall Movement goals, they are not under the direct control of any specific political entity.
An example of this on the Left can be seen in the 1960s Anti-War Movement.
The anti-War Movement consisted as a kind of “Center” for the movement’s activities by setting examples of how to communicate their goals through actions (mass demonstrations) rhetoric (standard neo-Marxist slogans reviling the capitalist “Establishment”) dress (replacing of the staid 1950s look while adopting the romantic Hippie troubadour appearance) and symbols (most notably, the ubiquitous runic “Peace Symbol.”)
However, the power of the Movement was not found in the ideologically fractious, chaotic and anarchic elements in the “Center,” but rather in the decentralized nature of the followers it attracted. One did not need to be a member of the New Left or the SDS or any of the other myriad groups that occupied “the Center,” but only had to align with the goals, the speech, the look and the symbols to be part of the anti-War “Movement.”
When the Center called for national actions, many of the colleges where students who were unaffiliated with central control nonetheless imitated the Center’s ways, and took part in actions affiliated with the Center’s goals.
Girlfriends brought along their boyfriends, brothers brought their younger sisters, politicized kids brought their politically agnostic pals… all finding camaraderie and purpose in the shared experience of political activism serving as interaction often akin to a school dance, sport event or a party where one can meet members of the opposite sex. There was music; there were intoxicants; there was romance… and there was group politics raised to a fever pitch.
Kirk’s assassination has shown what the various Left-wing Movements that dominate Academia have devolved into: authoritarian control, normalized violence, super-heated rhetoric and violent, nihilistic attacks on all traditional values.
But while of a different nature and telos, the Right has also experienced an evolution of its own over the same time period.
The current iteration of this evolution had its modern beginnings in the 1960s Goldwater Conservative Movement. Its electoral failure required 15 years to re-consolidate itself into the 1980s “Reagan Revolution” Movement. These iterations found support from the “Greatest” and “Silent” generations of the wartime and Cold War era. This Movement combined anti-Communism, championing free markets, libertarian concerns about the threat of Big Government to Individual Rights. It backed a strong Military. Above all, it gave full support to the Christian values upon which all else was built.
Reaganism evolved into the Tea Party Movement of the 2010s, which sought to finish and extend the Reagan Revolution; the TPM in turn led to the fulfillment of the Tea Party agenda with MAGA. This group was made up of Baby Boomers, Gen-X and Millennials (viz. those born between 1946 and 1996)
Like the anti-War Movement, the Movements in the Right also spread organically across the country, imitating the type of action, rhetoric, and cultural expressions advocated by the conservative “Center,” which was made up of politicians, pundits and media personalities like Rush Limbaugh… but they were not directed by them.
They were “with” the Center, but not of it.
Today, that evolution, like all evolution, continues.
Directly descending from Conservative MAGA, there are now two branches forming made of Gen-Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) which may lead to a merger that can create a new, vibrant species of Right-wing evolution that could dominate American political life for a generation.
On the one side are those who are most affected by the Kirk Effect; that is, those who seek debate and finding common ground with their adversaries. They do not disparage their opponents as enemies. They are greatly influenced by traditional religious and family values and are mostly aligned with the MAGA ideas of America First.
With the advent of groups like American Destiny, we find those who take a more muscular, more Nationalist view of the struggle, especially regarding their adversaries. For them, it is not enough to simply “debate” with those who openly declare themselves to be an enemy that despises you, considers you evil and revels in the idea of your death.
If the nature of politics is to have a political opponent or enemy, this more Nationalist group understands the need to confront such people rather than merely talk to them. It recognizes that this must be done peacefully, but it also understands that it must be ready to fight back in their own self-defense when confronted by the type of WOKE Left-wing cultism that has infected Academia to the point where assaults, riots and now, public assassination, seem commonplace.
If the Kirk Effect seeks to change the hearts and minds of students and open them up to the type of conservative viewpoint that has been all but banned on campus, American Destiny seeks to identify exactly who and what are behind this dangerous development… and to confront it.
It is not acting against, or even in competition with, the methods of the Kirk Effect; AmDest seeks to expand the Kirk Effect’s reach by exposing and undermining those institutions that are the enemies of reason and conciliation. It seeks to confront those who stand behind the Left-wing political cult on campus.
Few people are aware of what is known as the “Co-Curriculum,” which is made up of groups that hide behind the innocuous and benign name “Student Affairs.” The “Co-Curriculum” advertises itself as advancing research-intensive experiences, internships, and in community involvement, but is in reality the driving force behind the “social justice” propaganda that has poisoned almost every aspect of student life. It is the source of the omnipresence of “critical theory” - Critical Legal Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Critical Pedagogy Theory and, above all else, Critical Race Theory – on campus.
The Co-Curriculum consists of a collection of on and off campus clubs, workshops, events, seminars, and lectures that serve as crypto “thought-reform” cult centers designed to alienate students from their parents, their religion, their traditional values, and their country. It pushes a Manichean, view of the world that solely consists of the oppressors (who are White, patriarchal, hetero-normative, patriotic, and culturally traditional) and the oppressed (who are matriarchal, non-White, pan-sexual, transnational and radically multicultural.)
Thus, Student Affairs has morphed from being a rather innocuous group concerned with the feeding, housing, health and safety of students into an arm of the neo-Marxist push to inculcate Critical Theory into the students whose minds they twist.
Their goal is to create a group- or hive-mind that entices students in with happy councilors offering “help” and “guidance.” It violates informed consent by seducing them into the cult by promoting “racial struggle sessions,” “difficult dialogues” and “privilege walks,” which encourage students to “open up” about themselves, confess their hidden bigotries and denounce their blind acceptance of their parent’s prejudices.
Acceptance of the thought-reform is met with “love-bombing;” dissent is not tolerated. Anyone disrupting the unity of the group or undermining it with too many embarrassing questions is removed. Ironically, non-conformists are not welcome in a group that preaches students should non-conform to traditional society. In this way, Student Affairs has become a morally imperious, psycho-babbling clerisy inside academia. It seeks the creation of a “group-mind” that rejects knowledge for neo-Marxist cant. Worse, it is made impervious by a cowed faculty and an ever-growing budget for its bureaucracy.
Once programmed, the students are set out to “do the work” – that is, engaging in such activity that advances the goals of the Critical Theorists; any violence or mayhem that results is excused as “fighting an oppressor system.”
If you have ever wondered how someone goes off to college a happy normal person and comes home an embittered revolutionary spouting superficial, Left-wing cliches, this is how it is done.
The students involved with American Destiny see these institutions as what lies behind the increasingly belligerent and even violent attacks on campus Conservatives and what made TP-USA necessary.
One of AmDest’s desires is to expose the two main institutions who control the Co-Curriculum Student Affairs groups: the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and the American College Personnel Associates (ACPA.)
They want to alert students to the danger presented by organizations that use their institutional influence to entice, groom, and transform students into cadres who have been “re-programmed” into “Social Justice” drones. Once activated, those who have been essentially brainwashed by this WOKE ideological cult, are put out in the streets to fight for or against whatever cause the Left unleashes them on.
But when one of those drones attempted to end the ever-growing Kirk Effect by murdering its founder, the action badly backfired.
It ignited the next step in the Evolution of the Right by setting the stage for the Kirk Effect to merge with those, like AmDest, who wish to fight back against the institutionalization of thought-control on campus.
However, while talking is fine, it is not enough.
AmDest’s goal is to alert students to the dangers of the Student Affairs bureaucracy by exposing the tactics it uses to entrap them in a political cult that utilizes techniques such as self-denunciations, confessions of White privilege and opening-up their private lives and feelings to group criticism. Further, AmDest is a movement that seeks to engage students on a national level in the civic process, specifically by connecting pro-American students to support candidates and issues that advance the MAGA / Conservative agenda as it directly affects them in their local campus AmDest groups.
By taking on the purveyors of such political cultism and connecting students in such a decentralized manner, American Destiny can foster a movement that acts to multiply the force and power of the Kirk Effect by taking the fight to the Co-Curriculum as well as against Left-wing ideology on campus… not with violence, but with TRUTH.
Force-multipliers like AmDest can ensure that Kirk’s principles and values are put into effect by taking non-violent action to strengthen them and exposing their mutual enemies for what they truly are, and the danger to Liberty that they represent.
To give traction to their energy, American Destiny is planning a vigil for Charlie Kirk in Washington DC on October 10 th , exactly one month from his brutal assassination. In bringing together students as well as the general citizenry to honor Kirk, they’ll focus on the mission of liberating the campuses from the grip of this insidious WOKE cult. If your heart is with the change they represent - please help the efforts of these fine young patriots, and consider a donation of any amount at their website: AmDest.org
May they succeed and multiply.
Antony Stark & Bob MacGuffie are co-authors of the book ‘The Seventh Crisis – Why Millennials Must Re-establish Ordered Liberty,’ Seventh Crisis which examines and illuminates the historic crisis we currently endure.
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Great read! Happy to see young people carrying the torch!
Cool! 😎
200,000 people in Arizona and millions all over the world honored Charlie Kirk's memory with overwhelming love. Meanwhile, in DemocRATic Congress, you hear nothing but vile, vicious hate. You DemocRATs tried twice to get Trump and failed, you finally got Charlie, so who is next on your assassination list, Tucker Carlson?
American Destiny is a great name, sounds like 'manifest destiny'.
This article provides an excellent analysis of where the American Right has been, where it is now and, hopefully, where it seems to be heading.
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