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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

The South and the Alt Right

9/7/2025

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My last post (Hitler’s New Fans) has received a fair amount of comment, mostly negative. Some have questioned why I addressed the subject? Because I thought someone needed to take notice of an unfortunate trend.


I have no quarrel with the Alternative Right as long as it is attacking the evil Yankee Empire. But to bring into the defense of the South ideologies and the history of Central and Eastern Europe of a century ago and revise World War II is an irrelevant, useless, and counter-productive tangent.


Our defense of the South needs to be positive and forward looking. That is what our best spokesmen have always taught—the Agrarians, Weaver, Bradford, Livingston. The South is a living, long-lasting cultural reality of great beauty that has always attracted the allegiance of good people, even beyond our borders. It is not an aggressive ideology to be fueled by Old World ideas.


We cannot defeat the Yankee Empire politically. We can only watch it deteriorate from bad leadership and decaying culture. We should be building something attractive to put in its place. I think some of the Alt-Right would-be defenders of the South are actually still caught up in American nationalism and its bad deeds in the past. To be truly Southern we need to secede in our spirits from the U.S. and not care about it.


Hitler was a sham, not an exemplar. Because he attacked the Jews, who after all are White, he and the Nazis have been established as “racists,” never to be allowed to rise again. That idea was used after World War II to damage the European empires and bring tyranny and chaos to large parts of Asia and Africa. And that move was promoted by the U.S. government. The same notion of Nazism was also used to justify the Second Reconstruction of the South, supposedly to remove “racism” so America could be a true example of universal equality to the world. It was the usual shallow Yankee virtue signaling.


Hitler was not a defender of White people. He was responsible for the death of more White people than anyone in history. Every country that he invaded, occupied, and oppressed was White. He allied with the Japs and Islamists. He was a crazed German imperialist. To help Europe Germany could have provided cultural leadership rather than invasion.


All that stuff about “Nordic” supremacy and wiping out the inferior Slavs was a propaganda con game. Most of the countries he invaded were as much or more “Nordic” than Germany. Look at the pictures from the time. Ther German armies were full of Slavic-looking people. The U.S. and British armies were just as “Nordic” as the German or more so. The defenders of Russia and Poland are often tall and fair, as are the French resistants.


It is true that World War II disastrously left much of Europe under Soviet occupation. That was made possible by FDR and the Communists around him who were manipulating the Yankee Empire at the time.


The Soviets received vast amounts of American and British aid, hiding from their people where it came from. They may have kept American POWs taken from the Germans. There was the Katryn Massacre and Russians halting the entrance into Warsaw so the Germans could wipe out the Polish patriots and they could install a Communist government.


Roosevelt and his handlers in the latter part of the war did everything they could to advance the Communist cause, even shipping them atomic materials. The U.S. Army was ordered to halt so the Reds could take Berlin. Roosevelt and his handlers knew much of what was going on and they constantly acted to betray their allies for the profit of the Communists.


The Allies in 1944 had a powerful and victorious army in northern Italy, 388 miles from Vienna and the Reich. Instead of D-Day, Churchill advocated a move there, which would also have saved much of Eastern Europe from the Russians. From Normandy to Berlin is almost 700 miles— sometimes bad terrain, great rivers to cross, well-established defenses bravely defended, and a long supply line back to the Atlantic. A guarantee of Allied casualties all the way. Some of the army in Italy was even sent on a completely useless attack on southern France.


And the Cold War which used up so much American and Southern blood and treasure was the Yankee Empire attempting to hold back the Communist cause they had done so much, falsely and needlessly, to promote.


​I think that anybody who makes Hitler a hero and Churchill a villain has serious spiritual problems and can’t be Southern.

28 Comments
Joseph Johnson
9/7/2025 03:49:06 pm

Bravo, Dr. Wilson.

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Paul Yarbrough
9/7/2025 04:17:12 pm

“We cannot defeat the Yankee Empire politically. We can only watch it deteriorate from bad leadership and decaying culture. We should be building something attractive to put in its place. I think some of the Alt-Right would-be defenders of the South are actually still caught up in American nationalism and its bad deeds in the past. To be truly Southern we need to secede in our spirits from the U.S. and not care about it.”

This single paragraph says more than one hundred thousand-word essays!

Dang, I wish I’d thought it up! But Dr. Wilson, you are a couple of years my senior, so you got there first!!

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Perrin Lovett
9/7/2025 05:53:04 pm

An admittedly over simplistic WWII tobacco heuristic (because Dr. W., me, and the cigar!): Churchill smoked cigars; Stalin smoked a pipe; Hitler smoked himself.

(Could also be a "Dad Joke")

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Enantiomorph
9/7/2025 06:21:03 pm

I think most Southern nationalists would agree that a free and independent Dixie is the ideal end state, but nobody seems to have any practical ideas on how to get there. As long as the laws of the Union apply, as long as we are bound to the Union, then we aren't watching it deteriorate from a position of detached observation. Rather, the South and Southerners are deteriorating with it. If it can be neither reformed nor divorced politically, then who will be left to implement the attractive replacement? How can such be built while we are shackled to a corpse?

We may secede in spirit and cease to care about the American empire, but it will still care about us. Not caring will not stop the peddling of physical, psychical, or moral filth. Not caring will not stop the influx of foreigners, "American" citizen or otherwise, from debasing the physical and cultural landscape of the South. We are obliged to permit these things, and we lack the means - and often the will - to resist.

If the hope is that we can build something after the fall of the empire, then I'm afraid that the decline will bring us low along with that empire. If the course of events continues as it has and at the same pace, then what will become of the Southerner? The traditional lines of friends and family already grow increasingly propositional as families and social circles are diluted with outsiders. This forces us to include in our love of kith and kin people who, completely without malice, are incapable of understanding us or our way of life, people whose very presence renders us less like ourselves than we were yesterday.

How are we meant to even preserve what we have under the tender mercies of the empire, let alone build something to supplant it? I don't hold much hope for the future of the Southerner, but if there is any, I don't believe it is in completely disengaging from the workings of the empire that rules us.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/7/2025 06:42:31 pm

I guess I have to be that guy in the room raising his hand to remind you Dr. Wilson that most Jews don't identify as White. Their words-not mine. No one accuse me of me being a "maniac" or a Nazi. Their words-not mine! So, you can call them "White" all day, but most of them don't self-identify as White.

But let me humor you and all the civic nationalists on here. If they are "White," what would George Washington do to modern apostate Jews on American campuses and in government positions that mostly hate you and the Southern people? The apostate Israel that uses Southern men for their blood and money.

What would George Washington do? What would Robert E. Lee do? Go to the Wall and be a cuck? Or fight for the kith, kin, and Faith?

I hate Nazis and Nazism. But you Abbeville types are too much civic nationalists to recognize the racial aspects of our History, the racial aspects of the present, and the racial aspects of people who want your genocide?

I don't care about race. But race cares about me. What would George Washington do? What would Robert E. Lee do?

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Clyde N Wilson
9/8/2025 05:03:19 am

General K, you are obviously sincere and earnest and have thought a lot about these things. But I don't find anything in your position that is helpful to the cause of defending and preserving the South. The Jewish people are obviously Caucasian.

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H. V. Traywick, Jr. link
9/9/2025 12:51:30 am

"The Jewish people are obviously Caucasuan." Dr. Wilson, I make no claims to being an authority, but your comment prompts some interestin observations as I understand them. From what I gather, the Jewish (Jusean) and Arab peoples of Palestine lived in relative harmony for thousands of years, and are the Semitic descendants of the Biblical peoples. Many were subsequently scattered across the Roman Empire, and eventually from Spain and elsewhere were welcomed into our South. In later centuries there came a people of western Russia and eastern Europe called the Kazars who converted to Judaism, and came to be known as the Askenazy (sp?) Jews. Many of these immigrated into the northeastern cities of the United States, bringing with them Marxism, Communism, and Zionism. I would say that these might be the ones considered to be Caucasuan, but at any rate, different from those Sephardic Jews who were welcomed by and were assimilated with us in the South. Will someone kindly correct me on this?.

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Tom Riley
9/9/2025 09:24:32 am

Khazars were a Turkic people who converted to Judaism and whose empire was smashed by the Rus before the end of the millennium. The theory is that they fled west and became the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews. It was popularized in a book called “The 13th Tribe,” by Arthur Koestler. It’s not generally accepted. Genetic studies don’t indicate that Easterrn European Jews are largely Turkic. Of course, there’s always admixture over time, so all Jewish populations today contain genetic contributions from outside the body of Old Testament Israel. Both Turkic and Semitic peoples are broadly caucasian and therefore arguably “white.” However, by “white” many commentators mean white European. European Jews generally contain this admixture also, although the Sephardic Jews have it from different sources. Everyday languages of these groups were Yiddish (that is, Jewish German) and Ladin (that is, Jewish Spanish). Yiddish is still spoken today, though not widely. Studying Yiddish is a good way to learn the Hebrew alphabet — if you already know German. Is any of this helpful?

GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 10:50:13 am

Asking certain Jewish ran organizations and institutions to stop promoting and enacting our genocide as a Southern people is not helpful? Is that what George Washington and Robert E. Lee would say or do? To deny what these people are saying and doing is not the thoughts of a maniac or conspiracy nut job.

I’m being very generous here. You know what those men would have done to those people and institutions. Why are some of yall denying what these people are saying and doing to you daily? Instead some of you will just call me a “maniac.”

Ask the SPLC why they were caught on camera displaying the stats of declining White population since 1960. Why would that be posted in their office??? That’s just one tiny piece of evidence. I have more damning evidence, but if yall will not start there, I have nothing else to say. Asking Jewish led organizations and peoples to stop promoting my genocide does not make me a Nazi. Or a maniac. Or a crazy tinfoil hat person. I will say nothing more on this issue. You are right in your criticisms of the Alt-Right. But to allow certain Jewish led organizations and people to promote our genocide is unbecoming of Southern character. It ain’t Southern to behave that way.

Men like Jackson, Lee, and Washington would not tolerate it!!!

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Tom Riley
9/8/2025 05:09:49 pm

Of course, there’s always Joshua Benjamin — a great and good man in my estimation.

Although I’m willing to be corrected, I dissent from the Hitler-did-it account of WWII and of the Nazi genocide. To varying degrees, the whole German nation participated in the crimes for which Hitler nowadays is solely blamed. Anti-Semitism was close to universal at the time — not only in Germany but in Europe generally. Many of the Polish Catholics who concealed Jews from the Nazis were virulently anti-Semitic. They just didn’t want anybody to be murdered. And the moving spirit behind the genocide of subject peoples was Heydrich — who was himself suspected of Jewish blood because of his nose. I strongly suspect that, if Hitler had died earlier, the Nazi war crimes would still have occurred.

I could say more on this topic but think I’ve said enough for now.

Clearly, the equation of the Nazis with the Confederacy is absurd. The Nazis were all about subjugating others while the Confederacy was about seceding and going off on their own. Nothing could be more alien to the spirit of Robert E. Lee than the Anschluss.

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Tom Riley
9/8/2025 05:15:55 pm

Sorry, folks. I’ve been hitting the sauce. I meant Judah, not Joshua, Benjamin.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 10:54:51 am

Yall go over to Brandeis University website where a professor is publically promoting your sexual enslavement as reparations to Black people!!!!

THEY ARE DOING IT RIGHT TO YOUR FACE!!!

Don’t tell me I’m a maniac. I’m ringing the fire-bell in the night.

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GENERAL KROMWELL’S LAMENT
9/9/2025 11:20:05 am

Hampton, Lee, and Jackson rest beneath the silent ground,

Forrest too lies still, where no trumpet sounds resound.

Their swords are sheathed, their banners torn, no captains lead us now,

We wander on, bereft of men who once would not allow

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 11:36:32 am

The League of the South was wrong to align with Nazis, but to remain silent as certain Jewish led organizations, institutions, and people promote and enact your genocide is equally wrong.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 11:48:28 am

My Abbeville friends, I am one of you. But the more you ignore what I have said the more you will lose our people to groups protecting them from genocide. They will easily cast away their Southern heritage and character out of mere self-survival. My heart hurts. I don’t want to lose us and our land to Nazis. I want them my descendants to live in a Nazi free South. But Yankees and the Jewish cabal are enacting their genocide! What choice do you give our descendants?

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Clyde N Wilson
9/9/2025 02:15:45 pm

Gen. K, I think you are avoiding blame to the Yankees. If you think certain groups have too much power, it is because the weak and hypocritical Yankees allowed to them to take it. The Yankees had ALL the political, economic, and cultural power after The War, Where did their weakness and hypocrisy let it go and turn the U.S. into a multicultural empire?.. A lot of problems can be solved by getting out from under them.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 05:51:46 pm

Yes, Dr. Wilson. I agree with you. I am not going to disagree with you. You have to keep the main thing the main thing. The Yankee Empire is the root of our ills. And getting away from it and them is the #1 and best solution. And I hope the Alt-Right reads what you wrote me above. It is great wisdom.

As I have also written you privately, my heart breaks for many on our side fawning over Hitler. My heart hurts thinking Nazism would be the only solution to some. It makes no sense to me. Please understand my passion if at times misplaced. It is the future that scares me.

The Hitler fan boys do forget it is the Yankees who caused all our mischief. They are the cancer. Not Northerners-but the Yankee mindset. I may believe the Abbeville scholars are not race conscious enough. But too many in the Alt Right think the Painter would save us. I am not one of those people. I don’t find anything redeeming about the Painter. I wowh he had stuck to painting.

It is good the Abbeville and Brion still exists to give our people a viable alternative. One true to our Southern character. I hate what the Yankees have done to us. I found your latest book about Yankees very enlightening. For the record, I will not comment on the cabal on any other of your blog postings. It doesn’t consume me. I just thought it relevant with your past two blogs.

I’d rather write about why I sat at the NC Monument at Gettysburg for an entire day. And not once didn’t the park ranger mention the North Carolinians when the tour stopped there. Not once did he mention who sculpted the monument! Not once did he mention the North Carolinians who began their charge theirs in the third day. But why did you stop at the monument to only white Yankee soldiers! I sat there the whole day reading some Shelby Foote. And from sunrise to sunset every park ranger and the same rangers repeatedly said the same thing. It made no sense to me. And why didn’t one so called tourist ask about yeh monument they stopped at? Or ask the park ranger why he said nothing about North Carolina regiments at the North Carolina monument! Surreal world to me.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/10/2025 06:49:39 am

CORRECTION!!!!

All the park rangers did was quote and repeatedly quote with EVERY TOUR STOP there Yankee quotes from the battle!!! Not even a Southerner!!!! Let alone a North Carolinian at the North Carolina Monument!

And I’m talking about on Seminary Ridge! Not Cemetery Ridge-which would still be inexcusable! Or McPherson’s Ridge! But Seminary Ridge! Next to one of the most beautiful monuments ever created by man!

It was surreal. I felt like I was in an alternative universe. Like the Park Service was ordered not to talk about the monument. Or Southerners at that stop! It was surreal!

H. V. Traywick, Jr. link
9/10/2025 06:05:38 am

"The Yankees had ALL the political, economic, and cultural power after The War. Where did their weakness and hypocrisy let it go and turn the U. S. into a multicultural empire?"
This is a very intriguing question, Dr. Wilson. Perhaps we could "follow the dollar and know the truth." Was the Yankees' well known avariciousness and hubris their Achilles heel? It began during The War when the Yankees sold out the financial independence of the United States to the Wall Street bankers with the National Bank Act of 1863-4, and the shackles were tightened with the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. In G. Edward Griffin's book " The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve," he shows how the bankers, using " The Rothschild Formula" have enslaved us all - using their control of the media and of the politicians - with a thirty seven trillion dollar national debt. General Kromwell might find it interesting to do a biographic inventory of these bankers.

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H. V. Traywick, Jr. link
9/10/2025 06:32:28 am

Jesse James might have had the right idea after all!

GENERAL KROMWELL
9/19/2025 06:38:00 am

Sorry for the delay Mr. Traywick. I will check that out. I am guessing that the J people ‘coincidentally’ are there also. I believe Dr. Wilson underestimates the influence and power of the J people in America. Even Charlie Kirk before his death was being outspoken about it. I could spend hours trying to change Dr. Wilson’s and other’s mind on the issue but to what avail? I’ll come off as some type of Stormfront follower-which I’m not. I hate Nazism. But I do agree with Dr. Wilson that we have to keep the Yankees and their mindset regardless of where they live as the main thing. I was being sincere saying that comment to him.

And I do agree with you about Jesse James. It’s amazing to think what Lee would have done had he known what would come. As he told Governor Stockdale. We will never know. If we only had a Wade Hampton right now…

GENERAL KROMWELL
9/9/2025 06:09:41 pm

Typos above. Sorry for a few typos above. I was driving as I wrote. One sentence above should say: But why did you stop at the monument to only talk about Yankee soldiers!

It’s very misleading if I don’t correct those autocorrects.

And I am of the opinion those younger people on that site should have known about you. Remember those posts you wrote called “Remember When?” I’m so old now I guess I remember when I was kid you didn’t talk with adults in the room. Didn’t understand it then. Now I do.

Here’s to the North Carolinians at Gettysburg.

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Billy P
9/10/2025 02:23:07 pm

Amen to that! My gg granddad was one of those Tar Heels at Gettysburg and was wounded on July 1, 1863. The place brought tears to my eyes when I visited the battleground. It was a visceral experience for me.
I was fortunate enough to be in the 155th reenactment there and to say we real Southerners still feel it is an understatement. Oh, to have won that war!!!
Deo Vindice.

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Joseph Johnson
9/10/2025 01:49:05 am

Dr.Wilson, what is your opinion of Tim Wise?

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/26/2025 06:28:10 am

Tom Wise is a piece of garbage and should be deported to Israel. He makes the negative stereotypes of Jewish people seem true. He would be better living in his ethnic homeland. Yeh IDF needs more soldiers.

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GENERAL KROMWELL
9/26/2025 06:32:48 am

Tim Wise is a piece of garbage and should be deported to Israel. He makes the negative stereotypes of Jewish people seem true. He would be better living in his ethnic homeland. The IDF needs more soldiers. Since he is opposed to Zionism, maybe he should be deported to Gaza and help Hamas. I want what is best for him. I’m sure the Muslims in Gaza will treat him real nice.

Clyde N Wilson
9/10/2025 04:41:38 am

Gen. K. Thank you for your kind and deep message.

Mr. Johnson, Sorry. Don't know about that.

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Joseph Johnson
9/10/2025 04:54:38 am

No problem Dr Wilson.

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    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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