Politics & Power Quote by Tom Metzger

Metzger’s line is a recruiting pitch disguised as political diagnosis: a sneer at Europe’s far right for being stuck in yesterday’s enemies and yesterday’s flag-waving. “Bogged down” frames nationalism as not just morally suspect but tactically obsolete, like a movement mired in trench mud while the “real” fight has moved on. It’s a subtle bid to reposition his own brand of extremism as more modern, more strategic, less sentimental.

The phrase “so called Reds” does double work. It mocks the Cold War habit of labeling every opponent a communist, while also signaling that the label still has utility as a scare word. That little shrug of skepticism is not moderation; it’s cynicism. The subtext is: stop punching at caricatures, stop wasting energy on ideological fossils, start targeting the structures and demographics Metzger actually cares about. In other words, drop the old script if it’s not delivering power.

Context matters because Metzger isn’t a neutral commentator; he’s an American white supremacist organizer who spent decades watching European movements oscillate between parliamentary nationalism and street-level fascism. This is intramural criticism, meant to discipline fellow radicals: don’t get distracted by patriotic pageantry or outdated anti-communist theater. The barb at “Nationalism” also hints at a preference for transnational white identity over country-specific loyalties, a pan-white solidarity that treats borders as incidental and enemies as internal.

It’s blunt, but it’s not casual. It’s a tactic memo in one sentence.