2025: A Retrospective

As should be obvious to all, this year was immensely significant in multiple ways. So much so, that it is worth performing a broad retrospective that articulates all the key developments in one place. So that is what I have done here, merely minutes from when the clock strikes 12am on January 1st, 2026. It was quite hastily written, a stream-of-consciousness type affair, so don't expect my usual literary depth with this one.

I – Politics

The long-going Right Wing resurgence in Western politics has continued, and in many ways accelerated. The Reform party is projected to outright win the next UK election in a landslide, wiping out the two-party system in one sweep. In Australia, One Nation is quickly rising through the polls, to the point that they could overtake the Liberal Party as the 'conservative' option. In the US, Donald Trump took office for his next term, and is making a lot of loud noises towards reversing bad laws and policies.

However, this isn't just another pendulum swing. The meta of the political game is changing fast, wherein even these resurgent Right Wing parties are not being taken at their word. In the past, moderate conservative solutions were enough to get mass backing; slow down immigration, clamp down on Islamism, the usual. But there is a massive and still expanding movement that sees these usual policies as not enough. Those Right Wing parties ascending into power are also being grilled by much of their supporter base for being weak in their proposed policies. Among the most important of these is on the question of race. These parties tend to speak loudly against "multiculturalism," but much of the base is now saying that nationhood is not merely a matter of culture, but actual ancestral lineage. Thus, they are pushing for "exteme" policies of mass remigration, even for the children of foreigners multiple generations down. Old Liberal ideals are (rightly) being seen as the cause of demographic and cultural destruction in Western countries. The America First/Groyper movement under Nick Fuentes - whose "Generational Run" was this year thanks to a slew of mainstream interviews - is making colossal progress in this regard as well, more than any other definable movement. I have even personally seen the extension of the Groyper movement here in Australia, the opposite side of the planet.

Against all this, existing Western regimes are quickly dropping the facade of democracy and free expression. Australia's federal and state governments are passing new legislation against "hate speech," specifically (though not technically) targeted at White Australians speaking against their replacement, despite such laws being in response to a massacre committed by Muslims for Islam. Ordinary Brits are being arrested every week for "offensive" comments on social media. Jewish organisations in the US are lobbying for legal protections against "Anti-Semitism," among other things. These and numerous other actions are a blatant reaction to the resurgence of pre-War thought, that European nations do in fact belong to Europeans, and not the world.

This divide between the people and the regimes over them has been apparent for years, but in 2025 it has reached a new level, and only one of two outcomes are possible; either the people are crushed, or the regimes are taken down and replaced.

II – The Economy

The same pattern is emerging on the economic front. Though the worsening situation has been obvious to most for years now, I saw a sudden burst of outrage on the matter this year more than any other. The people have been complaining for years, but now they are either openly entertaining some form of rebellion against the economic order, or they are actively pursuing such. It's still early days, nowhere near as advanced as on the political front (the undeniable link between the two notwithstanding), but things are happening.

More and more are becoming conscious of their spending, being more deliberate in buying locally-produced goods/services. Musk's acquisition of Twitter is still paying colossal dividends to this day for the mainstreaming of Dissident Right discourse, despite his occasional heeding of elite interest group demands to censor certain Traditionalist/Dissident Right thought. Andrew Torba's Gab ecosystem has grown immensely due to the demand for truly uncensored platforms; a new site overhaul not too long ago, Gab AI, and possibly more things down the pipeline. Further, the growth in discourse about the subversion of certain immigrant groups - especially Indians - is causing many more Whites to engage in racially-conscious business/spending considerations; i.e., not supporting businesses owned by subversive groups and prioritising one's own kin, as non-White groups already do without state resistance. And just a few days ago the scale of Somali tax benefit fraud in the USA was uncovered, prompting a rapidly spreading call for a tax revolt. This and many other cases signal a coming change in the economic order, provided the people are led to such a change and not crushed by the existing system.

III – The Church

The years-long trend of the revival of traditional Christian thought and practice has continued and intensified in 2025. The poor foundations of modern Evangelical thought have been and (in individual contexts) are being shown clear as day to more Christians. Older traditions are having a revival of interest and intellectual output in order to take advantage of the harvest. I myself have helped to pioneer a more overt Anglican apologetics scene, and to my estimation it is going great, having received many testimonies of people coming over to Anglicanism.

Alongside this, the ongoing civil war in the collective of broadly 'Conservative' churches has heated up, as expected. Many a scandal, many an online spat. Pr. Douglas Wilson has dug in his heels on his defence of the Jewish people and tradition, against the criticism of the Dissident Right (DR). Stone Choir has officially retired the podcast, gradually shifting the civil war further away from their persons. But on the whole, the Kosher Right has retreated from sustained and substantive debate, and I genuinely believe this to be due to the woefully lacking foundations of their Liberalism, through which DR men are quite easily able to fatally refute on any given Twitter/X thread. Additionally, the DR is more rigorously establishing its intellectual foundations, and I will give myself some due credit for that, both in my extensive online disputations and with the release of my new book. What exists now is only the beginning of such efforts, including on my part (having multiple other relevant book ideas on the cards). As long as the pattern holds, it is only inevitable that the churches re-adopt a traditional outlook on the world.

Conclusion: The Common Thread

All of these significant movements in 2025 have a clear common thread; the post-WW2 order is being torn down in real time by multiple factions. Almost everybody is seeing why the current foundations are at best inadequate or at worst enabling of our current woes, especially on the demographic front. The opposition in all the above listed areas comes from a newfound appreciation of older civil orders, investigating for themselves rather than being normed by curated textbooks. On the whole, this is a good thing, but the potential for abuse (as exists for all ideologies and movements) mean that we Christians must seek to gain a strong hold of these movements and restrain destructive or subversive elements. Failing this, the growing revival of Pagan religion will see this progress turned against the faith. On top of this, countless churches must be thoroughly purged of the post-WW2 religion they currently hold, in order to maintain Biblical fidelity and have a chance at reaching the young men of today. The times are fast moving and, in some ways, scary, but the best of men will take this as something to be excited about, towards which they focus their efforts.

May God grant us a beautiful 2026.