Both Evola and Dugin are keen to make clear in their own works that nationalism as we know it today is not really a rightist position, it is Modern in origin. What we might call a general kind of ‘kinism’ is as old as humanity itself, but the hatred of this concept of several kin groups that have commonalities (i.e – religion) being ruled in the ultimate sense by one central political authority is not something that predates the advent of Liberalism. The Russian Empire is perhaps the best example of this, and it wasn’t even the case that the religion was uniform there. It was however the case that religious minorities were often geographically isolated and not interfered with too much by the monarchy who only demanded from them the raw essentials.

The conclusion drawn from these truths has some impact on how we frame the debate over the European Union. The reason it is an awful institution is not because it rules over many different nations, but that its goals are to actually destroy those nations and not only melt them down into one collective, but introduce all kinds of impurities from outside of the Occident itself for ‘enrichment’ purposes.

The continued existence of nations is something the Reactionary values, but their absolute political independence is something separate from their continued existence. It fact it may be the case that the absolute political independence of a nation delivers it to destruction!

For them losing power now is dire.

They need a Brumaire. They need someone or something to surrender to that can offer safety and their own system prevents any leaders who question Orthodoxy from classroom to the White House and all between.

We don’t actually need a man on horseback, they do.