America Last: Conspiratorial Collaborationists Root For Our Enemies

Do you agree with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin about the world?

Are you convinced that America ought to surrender its global power to a multipolar order?

If so, you might be a Quisling, a fifth columnist, an America Laster.

There are plenty of them. They’ve spent years lying about America, about our history, about our foreign policy, about our enemies, about our allies.

In the end, the only unifying feature of their bizarre amalgam of conspiracism and untruth is an agenda; an agenda to reduce America’s role in the world.

Let’s talk about the America Lasters, the people who play defense for Iran, Russia, and China, but who go on offense against the allies who fight alongside the United States. What do these people want? What is their actual agenda and why? Why do they so despise America’s dominant role in the world?

To understand the America Lasters, first we have to understand a basic reality: They are liars. They are lying about the nature of reality, and they have to lie because their lies are the only path toward American defeat, particularly in the current conflict with Iran.

I’ve been saying for weeks that those who most ardently oppose President Trump’s action are at best misinformed, and at worst, lying on behalf of the Iranian regime.

Since the beginning, they have argued that Iran was not a true threat to America or her interests; that President Trump was bamboozled into the war by lying, nefarious Israelis and domestic American voices, that all of this with regard to Iran is overblown, or even that Israel is the bad guy with regard to Iran.

Over the weekend, Iran blew that entire narrative up. Iran demonstrated full-scale that all of their defenders were useful idiots or America Lasters. The fools who claim that Iran posed no threat beyond the immediate region? They were parroting Iranian lies.

Just a few weeks ago, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi — who is likely not long for this non-72-virgin world — announced that Iran had limited its own missile range to 2,000 km, roughly 1,200 miles. That would make Iran a threat to the Middle East, but not to the heart of Europe.

Top American officials at the time warned it was not true. Senator Tom Cotton said to CIA director John Ratcliffe last week:

Iran has always had a space launch program, which is flimsy cover for the first part of that intercontinental missile program. I haven’t seen any Iranian astronauts in space lately. And second, they have medium-range ballistic missiles, which already have a reentry vehicle. So if you crudely married those two technologies together, I’ve heard some analysts say that Iran could have had a functioning intercontinental missile to threaten the United States in as few as six months. Would you agree with that assessment?

Ratcliffe replied:

You’re right to be concerned about Iran’s development of longer range ballistic missiles, Senator. If Iran were allowed to develop IRBM ranges, which is 3,000 km, it would threaten most of Europe.

Over the weekend, American officials announced that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S. airbase in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is 4,000 miles away from Iran.

What does that mean? Virtually all of Europe is in Iranian ballistic missile range, based on the attempt to hit the Diego Garcia airbase.

The Iranians appear to have been lying, which is not a shock because they lie all the time, whether it is ballistic missiles, their nuclear program, or their support of terrorists.

What would a world with a burgeoning Iranian nuclear program with intercontinental ballistic missile capacity look like? That is precisely the threat laid out by President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu over the course of the last several years, that Iran had already developed missiles that could threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.

We were told by the America Lasters that all of this was untrue. But their lie was invalidated by the fact that there was a long-range missile that was aimed at Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles from Iranian territory.

The America Lasters, people who actually really do despise America’s history and her present, are openly siding with China and Russia, just as they have with Iran in the current conflict.

Tucker Carlson recently told The Economist, “We can no longer be the sole author in terms of commerce of anything. We have to share power with China … because of their scale.” Tucker’s guests make this argument all the time, and just as often they are Chinese propagandists.

Take, for example, Jeffrey Sachs, a true globalist shill, basically an unofficial spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party. He said:

In many ways, the United States cannot compete with China, certainly on manufacturing production across a wide range of industries; can’t compete with China in a wide range of diplomatic areas; and this is very disruptive. It probably would be intrinsically disruptive, because this is a change of power and a change of the international order. And I think we all feel that it’s not the temporary phenomenon, but really the end of the U.S.-led geopolitics and even more fundamentally, the end of the Western-led geopolitics.

Carlson consistently repeats Sachs’s messaging, and he did so over the weekend while interviewing a man he called a prophet. This Chinese propagandist said:

What I would do is basically sit down, everyone, including Russia, China, Iran, and say it’s time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship. … Now what we want to do is open a dialog where everyone is respected, where America is no longer the bully, but a winning partner in creating a new economic order that benefits everyone and not just a few.

“I think that’s the wisest possible advice and probably the only path that preserves civilization,” Carlson responded. “The one country standing in the way of that is Israel.”

So Israel — that tiny country in the Middle East, not the United States — is the one that’s blackmailing America into not giving up its global power?

Right.

It’s important to recognize what he is talking about when he calls for what you might call a “new world order”: a partnership between the United States, China, and Russia to restructure global economics to “not benefit a few.”

If you don’t find that alarming, it’s because you are full-scale ignoring what Tucker Carlson is saying.

To understand why the America Lasters seem to have power in the online space, we have to understand that the America Last philosophy is rooted in a deep conspiracism about the United States.

Here’s the point: To the untrained eye — the eye of a normal American who grew up in America, who loves America, who was born in America — a world with more American power is a better world, a freer world, a more prosperous world.

When I say “untrained,” I mean a non-conspiratorial eye. I might look at the increase of power of America since World War II and see overall, unprecedented economic prosperity, the defeat of the Nazi empire and the Soviet Union, the spread of democratic values, and the spread of economic freedom.

America Lasters — on the Left and the Right —see something else: a worse world since World War II, a world of evil American capitalism destroying local communities, of “racist military might” overwhelming people of color everywhere.

The story of the world since World War II in the left-wing America Last perspective is a world of unending tragedy: The failure of the Marxist dream of the Soviet Union, the collapse of a “fairer” vision to the reality of free markets, the emptying out of left-wing thought in favor of neoliberalism, while on the Right, the American Lasters see a worse world since World War II as well: a world of evil American capitalism emptying out the communitarian world of real America, a world of American imperialism spreading vile secularism abroad, a world of false meritocracy providing cover for an emptying out of so-called “heritage Americanism” decided by bloodline rather than American ideals. Those are ideals that they consider a sham and a ruse.

This would be why America Lasters are fully in favor of the destruction of American power abroad.

But to destroy American power, first, you have to change American minds. To do that, you have to explain that a world of increased American power is actually terrible, darker, and more evil. And to make that claim, you have to believe a bunch of conspiracies. You have to believe that American meritocracy is actually a lie, that the Declaration of Independence is a lie, that in reality, America is run by a secret coterie of evildoers who manipulate systems and events for their own specific, insular benefit. 

The America Last Movement relies on unchecked conspiracy theorizing, conspiracism run amok. And that conspiracy is not just on the rise, it’s on an exponential rise.

It’s no shock that all these figures on all sides of the American Last movement are radically anti-Israel, because Israel actually is a powerful ally acting in concert with the United States. Israel has spent decades building its military power, sharing intelligence and tech with the United States, destroying incipient threats to the West from the Iraqi nuclear reactor back in the 80s to the Syrian nuclear reactor in the mid-2000s to Iranian proxies, and now the Iranian government.

And all these people despise Israel for it. Hassan Piker, Tucker Carlson, and the propagandist for the Chinese government are all on precisely the same page.

How little must you think of America to believe that China and Russia ought to have more influence in the world and that this would somehow be better for the world and America?

American hegemony is the best thing for the world. It is we who keep the trade routes open, ensuring freedom of the seas and the trade that provides the lifeblood of the global economy. It is we who stand down the world’s most evil regimes, achieving the world’s most dangerous weapons. It is we who support the rise of allies who share our values. It is we who prevent the spread of perverse cancerous power emanating from imperialist tyrants of communist and fascist persuasion.

The alternative world, the one the American Lasters want, is dominated by the same people who ran the One-Child program, and who currently throw dissidents in prison to linger and die, like Jimmy Lai. A world run by people who currently chuck their political opponents from the roofs of buildings, or poison them with nuclear materials, as the Russians have done, while allying with regimes that murder people who oppose radical Islam and support radical Islamic terror all over the world.

America First has nothing to do with America Last.

And it shouldn’t.