What pivot to White racial identity? Academia and plenty of journalists have talked about it but the Republican Party just .......
What pivot to White racial identity? Academia and plenty of journalists have talked about it but the Republican Party just .... didn’t do anything. Even Trump was pretty much entirely reactive. Ban CRT sure, but it’s not like any actual affirmation or pride in White identity is within the Pale. The Sailer Strategy was never enacted.
It’s not showing up in federal elected yet (well, Paul Gosar maybe, he doesn’t seem any hesitant after Steve King) but the cadre for the next generation is marinated in it. Institutional conservatism had a stronger establishment arm already in 1980 but that’s really what Reagan did, by 1994 the Contract With America was taking Congress
Also in a world where Hillary won she might well have ramped back up ‘70s style DOJ trawling for civil rights cases to file in their own name, there was rumbling about that at the end of Obama, instead now Biden’s letting that sleeping dog lie. Adjusting the political balance of power constrains the possibility space.
Anyway this reminds me in the mid-2000s, once when I was trying to be a screenwriter in LA I went down to Orange County for a seminar at Chapman on culture work run by the IHS (Big Libertarian development arm)
And I ended up writing this story, How Yusuf and Hassan Saved 9/11, which I’m still quite proud of, for the capstone project, and I appreciated that Big Libertarian shows nice hospitality, having rooftop lounge cases-of-beer kickbacks every night. And I noticed, lingering one night, that at one point everyone at the tables of movement professionals and would-bes was doing “top this!” banter and interesting follow-up points we had all clearly picked up from Steve Sailer at some point and not mentioning it