How The Woke Right Became What It Hates

Historically, Russia was very, very good at what we call psyops, psychological operations designed to undermine the United States.

They are still good at it. The Op is happening. It’s live, right in front of us. Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, and other Woke Right influencers have now landed in Moscow, and they’re basically Jane Fonda on the Vietcong anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War.

They propagandize for our enemies.

If you somehow believe that these people are just good-hearted folks who are invested in Christianity and the West and traditional conservative values, I hate to break it to you, but you are the sucker. If your head is attached to your shoulders, the Op has never been more obvious.

The dictator who currently runs Russia is Vladimir Putin. He was a member of the KGB. His task: Intelligence and counter-intelligence. He worked under a man named Yuri Andropov, who was then leading the KGB. Later, Andropov became the Premier of the Soviet Union, the dictator of the Soviet Union.

And here’s what Andropov said about psyops directed at Soviet enemies: “Disinformation is like cocaine. Sniff once or twice. It may not change your life if you use it every day, though it will make you an addict, a different man.”

It seems like a lot of people in the West are now all coked up.

Candace Owens is in Russia sitting on Russian propaganda panels. She’s praising what she describes as Russia’s approach to families.

Spoiler alert: Russia’s idea of family values is encouraging couples to have kids so there is an ample supply of soldiers to fight in the Ukraine war.

Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same sort of stuff, signaling her support for Candace’s big Russian adventure. And Buckley Carlson (a.k.a. Tucker Carlson, minus the skincare regimen) is openly saying that Russia’s leader looks out for his people’s interests, and he wishes we had that here. Tucker, of course, says exactly the same thing.

None of them are simply making critiques of America. They’re all saying that Russia is somehow better, that Russia’s leadership is somehow better.

And that’s the tell: There’s a big difference between saying “countries act in their own national interest” or “America has problems,” and “I wish our country were run more like Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” Those are not the same arguments.

One of those is rooted in realism. The other is just crazed fan-fiction conspiracy nonsense.

That is what this has become: Geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.

This is all part of what I have called a demoralization op.

Demoralization is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies. It is step one in collapsing your enemies.

That is what is happening here. Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it — and there is good news for them: There’s an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them, and lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.

The exact same people who built their brands around “Don’t trust the regime” and “Don’t trust the media” and “Don’t trust the propaganda” are suddenly very much in favor of trusting a regime, (when it’s Russia), the media, (when it’s Russia Today) and the propaganda, (when they are controlled by the Russian government and tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition).

Suddenly, these people are on board all the way. They’re not investigating or questioning.

This is not skepticism. This is credulity. This is absolute, credulous stupidity. And they are nodding along either because they are bought and paid for, or because the message actually flatters their priors, and their priors are obvious: America sucks. America is in decline. America, in fact, is evil.

These are the ideas they parrot: We took the wrong side during World War II. We were vicious during the Cold War. We were the bad guys in the modern era. We were the great despoilers of innocent Muslims in the Middle East.

In the end, the result is all the same. The only way to fix all of this is to unburden the brutalized, demonized the American soul, and give more power to America’s enemies.

We need — wait for it — multi-polarity. That’s how the Op works. The goal is to convince you that America is irredeemably crappy morally, and that the people we’ve always seen as our geopolitical opponents are actually not that bad. Russia is not that bad. In many ways they’re better than we are. Iran is not that bad. They don’t bother us. Maybe they could be our friend. China is not that bad.

That’s the Op, and it’s working on a large number of people who spend too much time online watching Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Sean Ryan or Andrew Tate or Megyn Kelly or any of the increasingly anti-American grifters and clickwhores willing to crap on America, either because they believe it, or for fame and money.