I’m in the under-40 set and among my age group there are a disturbing number of new so-called “conservatives” who are trying to use the Tea Party and other conservative groups as masks for their white nationalist schtick. They think that just because they oppose the Zero that we’ll let them in. We kick ‘em straight out once we find out their true beliefs (Like Belushi said, “I hate Illinois Nazis.”), but they keep coming.
I almost wonder if those infiltrators - I have no better word for them - are in the pay of a liberal group. I can think of no other reason why a bunch of white nationalists would come out of the woodwork NOW. Whether they are plants or not, we conservatives need to be vigilant and keep the ranks pruned of that type of badness.
What’s that WE kemmosabe? You sound like the Leftist thugs that beat up the diners in IL. The faux anti-racist, aka leftist skin heads.
I think of them more as misguided Jeffersonians who can't quite get it, but are all tied up (still) in the ethnic and social divisions that The Man in the big white house at the good end of town has used since the days when "the Old Southwest" meant Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Boss-men in white suits have played these guys for 180 years and they still don't get it, but regard the slaves as the problem, when it was their rich neighbors who created the problem by importing masses of slaves who, in 18th- and 19th-century terms, were unassimilable because still regarded as members of a separate, African society (n/w/s that many of the alienating African social markers had been assiduously stripped away and discouraged by slaveholders).
The historian of Texas, T.R. Fehrenbach, commented that it was "planter liberalism" and its use, and the use of slaves, to belittle yeoman whites that were the genesis of racist odium against the slaves, who were complete pawns in the social-distancing game being played by the planter class and their professional- and business-class supporters. (Example of "planter liberalism": treatment of e.g. black ministers and professionals as near-equals, allowing them to come to the front door of a plantation house, when freehold farmers would require them to come to the side door of their small, rough-cut houses.)
There has been little progress overall in ending the animus (other than official stompings, and occasional prosecutions, meted out to dissenters from egalitarianism and affirmative action), mainly because there are too few stakeholders in reconciliation and too many who benefit from continued social tension and hostility, including elite, brahmin "deciders" in Beacon Hill mansions and Newport cottages.