The Weekly Sanfedisti

    Be warned that to be a Jacobite is a lonely existence, there are no jubilees or the commemorative merchandise that characterizes monarchies in the 21st century. There is but only a wistfulness to what might have been and a tiny hope that the true cause might be fulfilled. A good question to start with would be "What does a Jacobite believe in?", to put it simply we are monarchists generally from the anglosphere and paradoxically at least a plurality seem to be American although no in depth study has ever been concluded. What separates us is that we hold that in 1688 in the so called "Glorious Revolution" James II the king of England, was illegally overthrown by the Parliament and usurped by his daughter and son in law, also illegally. And because Parliament has no right to dethrone a reigning monarch, James II and his heirs are the true sovereigns of England, Scotland and Ireland. This also means by extension that the line of rulers since this usurpation is ille...

      On my second re-watch of the brilliant HBO miniseries "John Adams" one can see many of the proto-arguments that dominate the politics of today, whether that be the debate on the role of the States vis a vis the Federal Government or the role of government censorship. It's a nostalgic continuity that grounds viewers in two points, first that the republic is an extremely young one, and secondly, that they and us are not so different, the show takes place after all in the time of the grandparents of our grandparents grandparents, which is a blink compared to any considerable stretch in history. But there was a certain scene which stuck out as utterly foreign to my modern ears, an exchange between Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the titular John Adams in which Franklin argues that for the republic to survive it requires virtue and virtuous citizens.     The concept of virtue was one in vogue in the time of the enlightenment, drawing from the ancient ro...

      In recent weeks there has been a confluence of multiple events that previously would have been been the events that defined decades. A shooting at an elementary school of which its only comparable antecedent Sandy Hook still sticks in the minds of millions among dozens of other notable mass shootings. An ongoing publicized House committee investigating the involvement of a former President in what was at best an unruly mob trespassing on the hallowed ground of the Capitol building, the epicenter of our Republic, and at worst a calculated attempt to overthrow that very Republic. And most of all the monumental decision by the Supreme Court to reverse the almost 50-year decision of Roe v. Wade and upend the status quo on abortion.      All of these events in years past would have dramatically shepherded the moderate center of our country into the arms of the Democrats. But to the contrary, generic congressional polling has shown a consistent lead fo...

       On the 24th of June, the Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 decision to reverse the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade which liberalized abortion access nationwide. This was widely expected as the decision of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case had been leaked around a month prior in an unprecedented breach of security. As to who leaked it would be anybody's guess but the smart money is on Justice Sotomayor who appears more activist than a judge or a level 200 Machiavellian ploy by Chief Justice Roberts in an attempt to use public anger over the decision in a vain attempt to moderate the more ideological sections of the majority opinion. Whatever the case may be, the culmination of decades of conservative legal activism and judicial revanchism against the Warren and Burger courts has led to this decision, a first in the modern Western world that represents a significant reversal in the legal fortunes of what was liberalized in the 1960s and 70s. It...

      It has been a while, but I have been as many know gripped by the spectacle in the Ukraine. And on my first post back I do have to point out the quite obvious fact that I was mistaken in my previous prediction on what would happen in the month leading up to the conflict. I had foolishly thought that the Western powers knew better than to keep escalating the situation, in this case, cooler heads did not prevail in the West and the coup by the idealists over the realists in the halls of power in America and Europe has been complete, and any attempt at actual peaceful prevention of this conflict was sabotaged from the start.      So what did happen and how did it lead to this war? The catalyst for this conflict I would argue was not in Ukraine itself, for what had changed in the 7 years since the Russians had bloodlessly taken Crimea and propped up their puppets in Luhansk and Donetsk? The answer is not in Ukraine but to its north to the happily forg...

 Number 5: Mai Sakurajima - Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai     Mai-San has all the makings of a top-tier Waifu with the added bonus of the anime not actually waiting till the very end to show their main love interests in an actual relationship. The first three episodes of Bunny Girl Senpai honestly feel like they could have been a standalone film and the rest of the show is an added treat on top. Mai-San is the perfect example of successfully balancing both a demanding career and a relationship and that earns her a position as a true waifu. Number 4: Kurisu Makise - Steins;Gate      The story of Christina is one of endless support, so much of what makes a Waifu good is the quality of her relationship with the main character and throughout the chronological three weeks in which Steins;Gate takes place she is a rock in which the suffering protagonist Okabe can rely on unquestioningly. Her personality, that of a brilliant scientist willing to indul...

       Monarchism did not come naturally to me or any other American Monarchist I suspect; the concept was there, and it wasn’t. It was King Arthur and his Knights; it was Shakespeare, it was something foreign, European in a way that didn’t make sense to our way of life. I was always some sort of conservative even as a youth, but I could never answer that philosophical question of what was conservatism? Was it to conserve something in society in policy? A way of life? Conservatism in 1950 obviously did not look the same as conservatism in 2010 so what then? Was I defending a temperament toward slow and incremental change in society or was I defending actual policy decisions, and if I believed the former the latter couldn’t possibly be true.        Let’s take something like same-sex marriage for example, now that it is the law of the land am I supposed to defend it from the perspective of the institutional conservative? If you look at polling ...