“Human Events” editor Jack Posobiec talks about the rise of urban conservatism and the “coalition taking place between rural conservatives and city conservatives.” “City cons are not rural cons, because it’s simply like this: when you have seen hell, it changes you. A right-winger from a blue area just hits different,” he said. “Right-wingers from blue areas are not the same. They’re not built the same. They are built different.” “There’s a new archetype that’s emerged on the new right, and that’s the city con: the city conservative, the disaffected conservative trapped behind enemy lines in a blue-state metropolis. And when it comes to law and order, mass immigration, and crime, the city con is often far more radical than his rural cousin.”

JACK POSOBIEC: So you see this massive crackdown by President Trump coming in, also announcing that he wants to roll this out-National Guard and others-to various cities in the United States. And people are saying, Why? Why does it matter? Who cares? I hear this a lot of times: Who cares about the cities, the blue cities? Just let them go. And I very famously, back in 2020, had this refrain: get out of cities. I always say this all the time: get out of cities, get out of cities. Why did I say that? I said get out of cities in 2020 as a tactical retreat. We didn’t have the numbers, we didn’t have the ability, we didn’t have the response mechanisms. And then that continued during the Biden patriot crackdowns of the Biden era and the Biden regime. However, we’re now presented with a new opportunity. Now we have President Trump firmly ensconced in power and firmly focused on this issue. And so I wrote something on X earlier today that has just gone absolutely viral. It’s been something that I’ve been kind of rattling around in the little gray cells for a couple of years now. I was talking about the difference between city cons and rural cons-a city conservative or a rural conservative. What does this mean? Here’s what I’ve said: it’s a coalition. There’s a coalition taking place between rural conservatives and city conservatives. City cons are not rural cons, because it’s simply like this: when you have seen hell, it changes you. A right-winger from a blue area just hits different. In fact, right-wingers from blue areas are not the same. They’re not built the same. They are built different. For decades, the American right has been dominated by this image of the rural conservative-the pickup-driving, small-town patriot with deep roots in red state soil. You love this guy. You can’t help but love this guy-the JD Vance kind of guy. But there’s a new archetype that’s emerged on the new right, and that’s the city con: the city conservative, the disaffected conservative trapped behind enemy lines in a blue-state metropolis. And when it comes to law and order, mass immigration, and crime, the city con is often far more radical than his rural cousin. Why is this? Because the rural con typically lives in a place where crime is relatively low-where immigration is minimal (though of course we know that’s rapidly changing), and the local sheriff probably knows his name. Problems are abstract; they’re filtered through national headlines. Rural support votes Republican, supports the police, waves the flag, goes to church, and daily life reinforces the idea that America is still salvageable without drastic change. But then you have the city cons. And by the way, I’m not trying to say one is better than the other or anything like this-no, I’m talking about a situation and a dynamic that exists. The city con lives in another reality entirely. He has seen the tent city, the open-air drug markets, the unchecked shoplifting, the revolving-door justice system. He watches as waves of illegal immigration and Section 8 hordes transform entire neighborhoods in real time-not in theory. You deal with DA offices that refuse to prosecute-the Soros types-the defunded police departments, and you see the media gaslighting you in front of your own eyes. So for the city conservative, this isn’t a debate about policy-it’s about survival. He knows the system is not just broken-it’s hostile. And that lived experience breeds a harder edge: harsher penalties for criminals, zero tolerance for illegal entry, and a willingness to challenge sacred cows about policing, public order, and public cleanliness. It is no accident that the MAGA movement was born on a golden escalator on 5th Avenue in New York City by a New York City billionaire. The city con is fighting for an America that has already been stolen in his own zip code-fighting for his home. Now the situation has gotten so bad-or at least it had gotten so bad until President Trump returned-that many of these rural areas are now also under assault by these very same forces: the Obama administration and the Biden regime air-dropping migrants into places like Springfield, Ohio, or places like Dearborn, Michigan, and the rest. We all know the story-the Somalians at the Mall of America. So the time has come for a coalition of the willing, if you will-an alliance between the brethren of the city conservatives and the rural conservatives. We will take back America. And when I say America, I don’t mean just one part of it. I mean the whole thing.

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