INTERVIEW: @Ricky_Vaughn99 Sheds Light on the Alt Right Perspective

The rise of the Alt Right in the past year wouldn’t have occurred without dedicated figures in social media fueling the fire beneath it. Many of these Alt Right proponents are using Twitter and other similar platforms as tools to spread their message, deconstruct false narratives, and expand the window of what’s socially acceptable to speak about. One of the most prolific and controversial people in the Alt Right Twittersphere is Ricky Vaughn (@Ricky_Vaughn99). Some of his most notable tweets have been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, and have even been spotted on The Scottish Sun’s printed edition cover. In this exclusive interview, Ricky Vaughn explains the Alt Right perspective, its challenges, and how the Alt Right responds to criticism from the Left.

Photo courtesy of @PeanutKD

WG: Your avatar and Twitter handle invoke the character Ricky Vaughn from the Major League movie. Is there a specific reason you chose this character or was it just happenstance that you chose him?

RV: I just chose the character as happenstance, I wasn’t planning on tweeting a lot or having a following or having any influence, so I went with this character and this avatar because I thought it was fun.

WG: What’s your position on anonymity and how does it affect the things you say and do online?

RV: Well, I think anonymity is a good thing if it lets us explore ideas and the logical consequences of those ideas without social approbation. There are certainly downsides to anonymity but I think, on balance, it is a good thing. Especially in a politically-charged multicultural environment, we risk losing frankness and losing the truth to politically correct sensitivities.

WG: You definitely fall comfortably within the spectrum of the growing Alt Right movement. Why is the Alt Right drawing so much new-found support and what led up to that?

RV: The alt-right is drawing support because its criticisms of mainstream politics are correct. The alt-right is also drawing support because information spreads faster, so people are able to poke holes in their flimsy narrative in real-time, whereas before, once they wrote it in a newspaper, it was accepted as gospel truth. The alt-right is also gaining support because there has been a rather clumsy all-out assault by the mainstream media, academia, and government, on White people and even non-White people who identify with historic America. They are also assaulting our traditions and our morals, so people are looking for answers, and the alt-right is providing the correct critique to modernity and mainstream politics, by and large.

WG: Vocal figures in the Alt Right often bring up White Genocide which is often mocked and belittled by talking heads in the media. Is there a cohesive push to “breed out” white populations in predominantly white countries? If so, why do you think this is harmful to society?

RV: I think there is a push for White genocide and it is part of a larger push by the elites for population control, where we see birth rates fall in Western countries for all races because it is so expensive to live, and anti-natalist propaganda is pushed by the mainstream media. But there is also a push for White people to miscegenate, and I think this probably has a lot to do with the Kalergi plan, which aims to destroy cultural identity amongst peoples through miscegenation. White people in particular are being targeted because we hold within ourselves the light of civilization, beauty, truth, justice, et cetera.

WG: You’re a self-avowed nativist who’s largely been supportive of Donald Trump’s policies concerning immigration and foreign-born terrorism. Trump’s staying power would suggest that recent global events have not only proven him right in many regards, but have also increased his ability to win. Do you think that the European migrant crisis and its repercussions are vindicating Trump in the eyes of people who previously saw him as being “racist” or “bigoted”?

RV: Absolutely. Before, many did not realize the threat of radical Islam. Also, people who have come into contact with the Amerindian invasion realize the importance of building a wall and establishing a border, especially since the death of Kate Steinle and so many others. They also are beginning to think about the future of Christianity and the European peoples.
Also, many who used to be stalwart defenders of the Jewish people are more receptive to criticism of Jewish involvement in the anti-White political agenda and the subversion of our moral foundation.

So Trump has been vindicated, and the alt-right, as it were, has been vindicated, but it has sparked massive cognitive dissonance amongst shitliberals, who are going to push back very vocally like a child who has had its favorite toy taken, and we are going to have to weather that storm.

WG: The Alt Right comes under fire a lot–much like Donald Trump– for some of the perceived off-color language and memes surrounding it. How do you respond to people claiming that the nativist positions of the Alt Right are racist?

RV: Well, I think we have done a pretty good job of exposing the people who think that facts are racist, or that jokes are racist, or that the truth is racist. And now, where you used to have cuckservatives and shitliberals crying out racist and ending the discussion, now they are largely staying silent or refusing to argue so as to avoid being embarrassed, which is a good thing because it lets us fill the void and spread our criticisms unopposed. Still others have started to consider our criticisms and adopt them, even some in the mainstream conservative media. The term racist is a totally emotionally loaded word. Most people cannot define it when asked. So the best response to being called racist is to mock the person using it as a slur, or to point out that they are trying to end discussion by using this word, or to even ask them if they can even define the word.

WG: Describe Jeb Bush in four words.

RV: Cuckservative guac bowl merchant.