America is in the middle of a sweeping realignment. For some time now, categories like Right vs. Left, Republican vs. Democrat, and conservative vs. liberal have been breaking down. We are now entering a new era in politics: the era of the institutionalized vs. the instinctual.

Who are the institutionalized? They are the true believers, the strivers, the useful idiots who have taken over our institutions through cultural revolution. You might also call them the NPC (Non-Player Character) PMC (Professional Managerial Class). In a sane world, they would be committed to an institution somewhere. Instead, they are running our institutions: corporate media, Big Tech, academia, teachers’ unions, NGOs, and government bureaucracies.

The largest institution of all is welfare. Almost half the U.S. population has some connection to the government money printer through direct handouts or indirect contracts. The institutions have devolved into ideological fiefdoms that operate above the law thanks to incestuous “public/private partnerships” run by crony commissars who push inorganic narratives from the top down. Here is the terrain mapped out in visual form: all of America’s Top 100 largest employers have employee bases that donate blue, except the NYPD and Marines.

What do the institutionalized believe in? Certainly not God or any real principles. Deep down, they only care about individual self-preservation within a conformist collective. That is why they quickly and loudly follow the latest luxury belief in the Current Thing, whether it’s COVID, climate, trans, Ukraine, Gaza, open borders, etc. “Trust the experts,” “follow the science,” and “everything-I-don’t-like-is-misinformation/-ist/-phobe” are flimsy shields against cognitive dissonance. At the slightest brush with reality, they collapse faster than a “Hate Has No Home Here” lawn sign blown over by a light breeze.

The institutionalized love the regime but hate the country outside of their urban bubbles. They share more in common with their foreign elite counterparts than their countrymen. As N.S. Lyons noted in “The China Convergence,” their attitudes and entitlement are similar to those of CCP princelings. They have shackled themselves to golden handcuffs and gags. Since they hold bureaucratic laptop jobs with negative societal value, the only way they can distinguish themselves is by virtue of their obedience to The Party and The Narrative. This is not a meritocracy: it’s a dicey game of chicken in which competitors latch on to an institution that has enough funds to overpay them.

The grift can’t last forever, so each fights tooth and nail against all to keep it going. To quote Chairman Mao himself: “Even after we get to Communism there will be a revolution…. Otherwise what will people like us do? We’ll be unemployed.” The rat race compels the institutionalized to flex to their credentials, sinecures, and LinkedIn plaudits harder than the peasants they look down upon who supposedly cling to guns and religion.

The longer they remain institutionalized, the more their critical thinking and communication skills deteriorate into Kamala-style copypasta word salad. They converse in a different language—Orwellian double speak and nonsensical buzzwords. Since any one of them who speaks freely endangers the entire delusion of their professional and personal lives, anyone who steps out of line is subjected to struggle sessions.

Imagine an endless, soulless doldrum of TPS reports, meetings, and meetings about meetings. Mindless chatter about rags no one reads anymore, movies no one watches anymore, and degrees no one respects anymore. Despite high salaries, the institutionalized are often living paycheck to paycheck because they “have to” settle precariously in one of a few expensive, crime-ridden cities. The AWFLs and their White Dudes for Harris lapdogs lead lifestyles that would be alien to their ancestors: poor information diets, poor physical diets, and a chemical stew of hormonal birth control and SSRIs make for a neurotic toxic brew that hollows out human instinct.

Who are the instinctual? They are the builders and producers who affirm their humanity through constant contact with reality. The graph below shows the contrast between laptop jobs and real jobs that require participation in the feedback loop of live interaction.

Homemakers, truckers, construction workers, mechanics, pilots, business owners, and farmers all make a living by making our society function with their hands, sweat, and blood. They hone their instincts, seeing the direct result of their labor, sometimes in life-or-death situations. Their survival depends on paying attention to what’s happening around them at all times and adapting. They are not waiting for an institutional “goodthink” mediator to tell them what to think (for example, McKinsey consultants showing slides about why DEI/ESG will lead to synergistic stakeholder alignment).

And this habit of paying attention to reality, of responding to it, is not only discouraged among the institutionalized: it’s punished. That is why many instinctuals have left the institutions to build anew, subverting subversion as class traitors.

What do instinctuals believe? They trust their guts and their God. Some call it street smarts or hillbilly wisdom. They uphold the American foundational values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With quiet dignity, they take their families to church and seek self-sufficiency. They speak plainly and shake hands firmly. All colors and creeds are among the instinctual. Polling data shows their numbers are swelling because they share the common ground of reality in an era of insanity. If something feels off, they know it and will say it to your face with strong eye contact:

Why do you want men in women’s locker rooms and sports? Why are you trying to talk to young children about sex and race? Why are we judging people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character? Why are you funneling our tax dollars to endless foreign wars and endless streams of migrants, but leaving scraps for us?

The instinctuals are far happier and healthier by every metric, because of their closeness with family, community, and reality. They would love nothing more than to be left alone. But as America turns 250, the institutionals have backed the instinctuals into a corner as they seek to sneer, sloganeer, and demographically engineer their way to permanent power.

The 2024 election is the climactic clash between the institutionalized and the instinctual. Kamala is the pinnacle of DEI institutionalism, regurgitating word salad and reading the same cliche teleprompter script as her senile predecessor. She and her baizuo manchurian V.P. candidate Tim Walz have never worked in the private sector a day in their lives. They have been institutionalized from the moment they entered kindergarten until now—teaching, prosecuting, legislating, and cajoling their inferiors.

Any instinctual will instantly see through Kamala/Walz’s fake astroturfed brat joy folksiness. Kamala’s coalition is well represented by two institutional Dicks: Neocon warmonger Dick Cheney and trans Admiral Rachel “Dick” Levine. Put them together and you get American bombs dropping around the world and dudes in every women’s locker room. This is not an umbrella: it is a sewage basin full of America’s foulest dregs and opportunists.

In stark contrast, Trump and his hillbilly apprentice Vance are instinctuals. The former grew up in the rough-and-tumble, sh*t-talking outer boroughs of New York. The latter was raised in dirt-poor Appalachian poverty. They don’t need teleprompters, preferring to speak off the cuff and riff jokes with their fellow Americans. The affection is mutual. Their shared communication style is old-school, shoot-from-the-hip. As shown in the bubble charts above, their career trajectories passed through the few remaining instinctual red zones: The Marines, business owners, and construction. Although they both attended Ivy League universities, they were always outsiders.

The institutionals still maintain a vice grip on information control through education, media, and tech. What they lack in talent, they make up for in organization and repetition. They will artificially manipulate the marketplace of ideas and the Overton window. And they are willing to play every dirty trick to subvert instinctuals who try to push them back. Every tyrannical step forward becomes harder to reverse. After a half-century Long March, they stand at the precipice of total control.

Our country was founded and forged by instinctuals. These explorers, pioneers, and settlers built the institutions that the institutionals are now looting. Two hundred and fifty years after the founding fathers declared independence, a new band of patriotic instinctuals is coalescing to restore the republic. Have they awakened enough of the country at the right time?