More thoughts on "unity" in the conservative movement
You have no credibility when you demand "unity" while viciously attacking people who are allegedly on "your side."
The most glaring flaw in demands for “unity” in the Republican Party or on the Right more broadly has always been hypocrisy. In the 1990’s and 2000’s, it was “moderate” Republicans who demanded “party unity” against the Democrats. We should be “united” against the Democrats, because it is better to have a Republican who agrees with us 60% of the time than a Democrat will agree with us 0% of the time. But as “moderates” repeatedly attacked conservatives, conservatives started to wake up and realize the whole premise was nothing but hypocrisy. We saw this clearly when “moderates” repeatedly attacked Christine O’Donnell and refused to support her when she defeated the party establishment’s preferred candidate.
Now, we are seeing the same hypocrisy in demands for “unity,” but those demands for “unity” come from or are made on behalf of white supremacists, white nationalists and outright neo-Nazis that comprise the so-called “alt right.” The reason this is hypocrisy is that the “alt right” was founded as opposition to traditional conservatives. They never miss an opportunity to attack traditional conservatives as “losers” or “cucks.”
As an example, look at what Nick Fuentes had to say about Vice President J.D. Vance. He said the Vice President “is literally a fat, gay, race traitor that married a Jееt.” Fuentes continued: “JD Vance’s kids are brown. His kids. His wife is brown. She’s a Jeet.”
There are Christians who have raised substantive concerns about Vice President Vance, specifically his promotion of pagan holidays and a pagan religion. This is a reasonable criticism, because Scripture is clear in John 14:6 that Jesus is the only path to eternal salvation. I pray that Vance is trying to convert his wife, and I hope she becomes a Christian. But there is a world of difference between criticizing Vance on theology and racist dehumanization of his wife and children. If Usha Vance had converted to Christianity before she married the Vice President, neo-Nazis like Fuentes would still hate both of them for “race mixing” and would still consider the Vice President’s children to be sub-human.
There is no way I will ever “unite” with this rancid sewer filth of an ideology, vomited by a man who openly and proudly admires both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
But even if you could convince me that the Left is such an existential threat to human civilization that it requires everyone on the “Right” to “unify” against them - and you cannot do that, to be clear - the fatal flaw in your argument is the brazen hypocrisy of demanding that we refuse to criticize the “alt right” while they are constantly attacking other conservatives and Republican elected leaders both past and present. I will not play a game where only one side has to obey the “rules” while the other side gets to do whatever they want. That is simply not how the world works, and I pray that my fellow conservatives wake up and see the fatal hypocrisy in the pleas for “unity.”