The Doomer Mindset

By Robert Rundo and Michael Harrington

I’ve been active in the nationalist scene since well before 2016, and I can tell you plainly: things have shifted in ways I never would’ve imagined back then. We’re still far from the fascist landscape I ultimately want to see, there’s no illusion about that but it’s dishonest to pretend we haven’t made real progress.

What frustrates me is that, despite these gains, much of the movement is addicted to defeatism. Everything is framed as doomed. Every effort is pre-declared a failure. We’re told there’s no future here, no agency, no path forward—only collapse, only despair, only outsourcing hope to some distant third-world alliance.

I can’t predict the future, brothers. But I do know this: a losing mindset has never produced a winning outcome. And it never will.

Nationalists are struggling to escape a losing mindset. Almost every time we have a self-affirming idea or something finally goes our way, there are fifty guys ready to jump in and say, “Actually, it’s not going to work”. “It’s fake”. “It’s an op”. It’s not real”.

There’s a real sinking ship mentality that needs to be overridden if we’re serious about victory. We’ve been on the outside looking in for so long that any real gains in the mainstream get immediately undercut. It’s termed “rightoid” cringe, dismissed as controlled or ephemeral, and blackpilled into oblivion. This constant negativity isn’t just annoying it’s self-sabotaging. It kills momentum, discourages new people from joining and turns potential wins into proof of inevitable defeat.

The untold truth about the doomer mentality is that it’s comfortable because it holds no surprises, and as such no further suffering that comes from hope when optimism is shot-to-shit. When you analyze doomer culture and envelop yourself in it you find relatability, perhaps even a shared community appreciation for music you were told was too depressing for most people. You find bitter-sweetness in memetic Youtube videos expressing a tragedy that resembles something close to your life: going to the store at 11pm to pick up some smokes and a six-pack of beer or energy drink as you listen to a Smiths adjacent band from the 70s or 80s; sitting in the park with a smoke under the night sky while you contemplate how happy you used to be and where it all went wrong; returning home to drink what’s left as you watch Youtube gaming slop; and finally staring at the ceiling at 4am until the sun breaks through the curtains because your circadian rhythm is fucked.

There’s a reason why doomer culture captured a whole generation of men. It was because it made them comfortable with the state of suffering. After a while, standing on the balcony of their apartment having a smoke, sipping a beer and watching the rain fall upon the vast plains of flickering post-modernistic architecture that infests the average Western city became a cosy routine, something tragically wholesome that they came to enjoy. This is because of the degree of control their routine gave them within a [doomer] worldview that revolves around the idea that we are subject to external variables outside of our control and suffer because we hope. Having control, any control at all within a determinist pessimistic system of belief alleviates the suffering that comes with such an outlook on life. That’s point one. Point two is that when you know you’re not alone in both your worldview and coping routines it encourages you to maintain them as a consequence of wanting to belong to that community, to negate isolation and self-ostracization; and to most importantly, prevent hope from upsetting the bitter-sweet comfort, control and familiarity you have achieved.

This is where the losing nationalist mindset and the doomer mentality meet. Nationalists sabotage themselves and others by making defeatist and untrue statements about an organization or movement because viewing politics through a defeatist lens – the doomer lens – is easier, less painful, than sacrificing the familiar and comfortable position of pessimism for the uncharted and treacherous position of optimism. It’s easier to tear something down that is freshly built rather than watch it be torn down later after time, hope, sacrifice and resources have been invested. It’s safer to anticipate that something is going to fail rather than commit to it and hope it won’t.

Maybe this is why we still have people who say things like, “There’s no point in Active Clubs because they’re going to get banned soon”, “Will2Rise is a ZOG op” or “ACN is just a bunch of White racist prison thugs”. That last one is the most revealing of a doomer mindset because anyone who prioritizes action over talk would rather have tough men with harsh experience stood beside them than fragile ones that have never taken a beating.

We need to break this cycle. We need to celebrate the gains (even small ones), build on them, and stop letting the doomers dictate the narrative. Our countercultural revolution is a war of attrition. It will be long, brutal and feature great

losses, but victory requires belief that victory is possible. This is not blind optimism, but refusing to default to despair every time things start looking up, when fear of change and loss and suffering creeps in. We’ve waited decades for this kind of opening, so don’t let the blackpill crew sink the ship just as we’re finally getting somewhere.