“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
— Jonathan Swift
Since the turn of the millennia, right-wing Irish nationalism has had a plethora of opportunities to reshape itself into an electorally viable form, to build patriotic institutions, and to present its ideas on the national stage. Yet despite ample openings for such a platform, the present-day state of “the movement” is almost as it was in the year 2000—dismal.
At every possible political juncture—community activism, institution-building, elections, and referenda—right-wing Irish nationalism has been haunted by the looming spectre of malicious morons.
These morons—the “schizo-right”—are large in number, and extremely vocal across social media. Unfortunately, with a lack of ideological or political coherency in the nascent nationalist movement, self-policing and “optics” have become impossible to run on large scale. These groups, whether they realise it or not, are active hindrances to the activities of sincere patriots who wish to do their country good.
The idiots responsible for setting-back Irish nationalism include more than Justin “Litler” Barrett or Gemma O’Doherty. They are the loser-minded anonymous accounts of X, the deranged boomer conspiracy theorists, washed-up “citizen journalists” and of course schizophrenic neo-Nazis.
The Burkean published its warning to the Chuds of Clann Éireann for a reason. Barrett—though just one person—has impressively managed to sabotage Irish nationalism at every juncture of his career. With the trajectory the schizo-right has placed itself on since the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is inevitable that these fools will become the play-things of foreign intelligence agencies in the future, and effectively condemn Irish nationalism as a political ideology for decades to come. If nationalism is to save Ireland from its dreary future under gombeen populists or dog-whistles from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it must side-line these weirdos forever.
The anonymous “radicals” on social media—many of whom are no-doubt good people seeking an outlet to vent their frustrations and opinions—are part of this problem. Rather than infiltrating institutions, joining political parties, advancing their careers or starting families, these accounts show symptoms of the terminally online; schizophrenic keyboard warriors who will chatter away on social media while they watch their country crumble around them—doing nothing to stop it.
Perhaps they like losing? Maybe that’s what drives them? The modus operandi to keep posting, to keep finding masochistic solace in the fact their country is dying while they are part of the “chosen few” who know why? These people ultimately represent a consistent failure of action—an inability to log off and make real change in the real world.
Insane boomer conspiracy theorists have polluted the right since their first appearance onto the scene during the COVID lockdowns. These people—many of whom have had their brains melted by access to the Internet—represent a failure of the older generation. These same boomers who obsess over Qanon-tier conspiracy theories sloppily grafted onto the Irish political arena, likely voted for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael their entire lives, and now rather than involve themselves in the creation of new political institutions as would-be wise elders, they have dived head-first into the rabbit-hole.
While generally a political and social positive that provides a necessary function for any populist movement, some of Ireland’s burgeoning citizen journalist class have betrayed their real purpose. Instead, they engage in the performative radicalism of anonymous social media accounts, or boomer conspiracy theorists, with the mere distinction that they prefer to facefag on TikTok and Telegram, than Facebook or YouTube.
Finally, there are the neo-Nazis, take Clann Éireann for example—actually the only example—who barge into community-led asylum protests with flags and bullhorns to preach their Ceannaire’s national socialist message in his absence. These people—as demonstrated by the endless history of neo-Nazi cranks in Britain and America—inevitably end up as toys of the security state to be weaponised against any genuine nationalist alternative.
At the end of the day, this is not about the distinction between radicals and reformists, or revolutionaries and reactionaries. The fundamental division in the Irish Right as it stands is between lunatics and those of sound mind.
Pearsian nationalism with a community face and institutional reach is something Ireland needs, but it can’t, and won’t get it from the schizo-right. Nationalist movements need human capital, individuals with their hearts in the right place, and their minds focused on tangible successes.
Unfortunately, these weirdos have gone largely uncriticised by the right for a long time, and as a consequence have led other well-meaning people into their mental trappings. It would be a denial of reality to ignore that Irish nationalism has become intolerable for the middle-class—who are begging for a right-wing political alternative—precisely as a result of the walking reductio ad absurdum that is the schizo-right.
Another painstakingly obvious phenomenon amongst the schizo-right is their distinct absence of any real social life, while their fiendish fixation with politics proves to be just a distraction from their disturbed egos. Whether it is boomer conspiracy theorists running off the reservation, or self-professed zoomer radicals one-upping each other in performative social media debates—or even the vice-driven actions of the mentally insane—these people are fundamentally incapable of engaging in politics.
The absence of any optics or opsec proven by these idiots time and again has shown they don’t understand the most basic facets of political action. There must be no toleration in the Irish Right for mumbling twits who masquerade as activists or stakeholders but cannot understand basic commands such as knowing when to shut their mouths and do what they’re told.
Collectively, the people across these groups hold symptomatic traits of neurosis and social media brain melt. They are an active liability for anyone else in nationalist politics, and risk cordoning off right-of-centre views forever from public opinion if they continue. Serious nationalist activities are perpetually hindered by the schizo-right—who in essence are a Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of every nationalist in the country.
Since the 1990s these people have been allowed to run wild, and it has gotten Irish nationalism nowhere. Justin Barrett is merely the most egregious of a coterie of Ceannairí who must be expunged from political discourse on the right if it ever wants to succeed.
It must be emphasised that even among real patriots, no party or faction is innocent in allowing these retards to take control—all are guilty. Every single nationalist or centre-right conservative in this country over the past 25 years is someway at fault for this movement’s failure to gestate.
Irish nationalism until recently was a barren field, awaiting the youth to plant the seeds of their ideas for future generations. While much of that field remains fallow, part of it has unfortunately been seeded by retards, weirdos, and the mentally ill. All that can be done now is to distance the movement from these people, while sincere nationalists keep building institutions, political organisations, and most importantly—cultivate respectable personal lives with their friends and families.
While there is a dire need for more respectable public-facing nationalist figures in Ireland, the schizo-right distort and undermine these efforts by acting out in increasingly foolish manners. Their stupid outbursts and rants—digitally or in real life—jeopardise the overall image of right-wing politics in Ireland, and a clear separation must be made between the pathological and the sincere. Further, these dunces have no clue of the importance held by secrecy or confidentiality in politics. Rather than work on building a professional portfolio and focusing on their individual betterment for the sake of the country, they lash out; they simply must stand atop the soapbox, they must be the leader, they must hold all the cards—they must give into their pathologies and drag as many people as they can into their inevitable downward spiral.
Ultimately, there can be no unity with cranks and weirdos. The Irish Right has no unity because arguably many of these people and groups are not even right-wing or nationalists at all—they are mentally ill people who have been allowed to parade both online and around the country, masking themselves as political figures to obfuscate from their twisted personalities. There cannot and will never be any unity with retards.
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