



Taki’s own Gavin McInnes just conducted a mesmerizing interview with Breitbart.com’s Milo.

It was titled “Why We”re Winning,” because Milo’s new column in question is called “Why I”m Winning,” and so they talked for over twenty minutes about how and why “we””the right; anti-SJWs; cultural libertarians; Your Name Here”are finally thrashing the politically correct left’s pimply flat ass.

I so want to believe that Milo and Gavin are correct:

That their firsthand recon online and off reveals a robust mutiny brewing against “progressive” tyranny.

Executive summary:

Milo is winning because (a) all the right (that is, left) people hate him; (b) as @Nero, he’s acquired almost 100,000 Twitter followers in just a year and a half, and gets 50 million tweet impressions a month (“More impressions than some news sites”); and (c) our side is more fun, better-looking”just cooler overall:

My “on the DL” fans include world-famous rappers, comedians, novelists and movie stars. Your head would explode if you knew who you”re sharing a favorite journalist with.

Milo adds:

My secret is just this: I don”t exclude people. I”m everywhere, all the time, and I talk to everyone, especially the people polite society tells me not to.

“Can we really overthrow society’s self-selecting, multigenerational “progressive” elite or should we focus on constructing a semi-underground counterculture?”

I was hopeful when I read that part. Did Milo mean “white supremacists” and “neo-Nazis,” i.e., crusty Caucasians prosecuted by the state for posting anti-immigration “poems” on the Internet? Tea Partiers in cornball tricorn hats? Me?

Reading Milo further, it turns out he meant antifeminist women and Gamergaters. So our definitions of “polite society” differ slightly. Fine.

And this is mostly terrific:

My career is evidence not just that free speech is effective, but that free speech combined with a lack of snobbery and class war always wins in the end. There’s no defence against the truth”especially when it’s wrapped up in a joke and has great hair.

“Mostly” because while I share Milo’s valorization of “the truth,” “lack of snobbery and class war,” and “jokes,” the part about “always wins in the end” is the sticking point.

I”m guessing I”m almost twice his age. Plus, I”m Canadian. So I”ve seen “the truth” “wrapped in jokes” lose again and again. (See “anti-immigration “poems,”” above, or Google “Guy Earle.”) And even when we (and our jokes) “win,” that victory costs between half a million and 2 million bucks a pop, and the “hate speech” law we overturn gets put back any second now.

So maybe it was the “hair” part? (Surely that was Kim Davis” problem?)

Long before my firsthand, financially challenging experience arm-wrestling with SJWs, I”d been shoulder-checking leftoid beta-male faggotry on my blog since the summer of 2001.

And before that, I”d been hearing about “the death of political correctness” ever since the day it came home from the hospital. Because I was at the baby shower.

Back then, in the late 1980s, SJWs were mostly British, and were referred to disparagingly as “the loony left””hideous, humorless weirdos”even by leftists I worked and lived with.

The contagion spread to America, but no worries, because the satirical film PCU came out and people were like, “Look! We”re mocking them! They”re toast!”

That was twenty years ago.