Posted on 08/11/2018 7:24:32 AM PDT by rktman
So the white nationalists are coming back to Charlottesville, and once again we’re going to hear the standard media narrative that these bigots are “on the right.” Leave aside that Jason Kessler, the organizer of the original Charlottesville rally, was an Obama activist and an Occupy Wall Street guy. Never mind that Richard Spencer, the poster boy of white supremacy, reveals in a detailed interview in my new movie that he’s a progressive who supports nationalized health care and expanded centralized state, and whose favorite presidents are all Democrats.
We need to probe deeper to understand who these white nationalists are and what they are about. One of the few scholars to make a genuine attempt to study their movement is political scientist Carol Swain. Swain, who was featured in my film “Hillary’s America,” is one of the leading African-American scholars in the country. She has written two books, a detailed study of the white nationalist movement called “The New White Nationalism in America ” and the other consisting of searching interviews with its most prominent members.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
You should remember the StormFront invasions of FR in the early days. The “White Nationalist/Neo-Nazis” do exist although they are very small in number. The Fascist Group “AntiFa” greatly outnumber them and are a more dangerous force.
But the media loves White Nationalism as much as they love Westboro Baptist.
Westboro Baptist was backed financially and supported by leftwing groups...
And this last stupid DC ‘protest’? Organized by liberals... I know the way conservatives ‘protest’ and the ways liberals protest. Very different styles. The original Charlottesville had all the earmarks of an organized liberal ‘protest’ too... the BS stuff this last weekend the same.
“I’m no expert on Rusher, but if as you seem to imply, Rusher here talks about Nixon’s so-called Southern strategy, I would recommend to you D’Souza’s new movie, “Death of a Nation” which, among other things, debunks that.”
Sure, because Dinesh knows so much more than the people who actually knew Nixon. Including some who designed the 1968 campaign and strategy.
“The two books I reviewed in the March 24 TAC, Alfred Regnery’s Upstream and Donald Critchlow’s The Conservative Ascendancy, both offer some interesting background on what became the Southern strategy. Regnery argues that National Review‘s Bill Rusher had outlined the strategy as early as February 1963, noting that (in Regnery’s words), “a conservative Republican with support in the Midwest and West could make inroads into the solidly Democratic South because of Southerners’ discomfort with the civil rights movement and thus eke out a presidential victory.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2008/04/03/secret-origins-of-the-southern-strategy/
“Having made his intentions known, Nixon dialed up the charm. In January 1967 he invited Buckley, Bill Rusher (publisher of National Review), and other members of the conservative media to his sprawling Fifth Avenue apartment. There he exhibited his virtuosic command of foreign and domestic policy. Rusher remained unmoved — Rusher would always remain unmoved when it came to Nixon — but Buckley? There was no surer way to Buckley’s heart than a vigorous display of intellect and insight. As Neal Freeman, Buckley’s personal aide, recalled: “I knew when we went down the elevator, early in the evening, that Bill Buckley was going to find some reason to support Richard Nixon.” True, Nixon was no conservative, but the heart wants what it wants. And a smart, experienced, electable Republican was exactly what Buckley wanted in a 1968 candidate. More than a year before the election, he was recommending Nixon as the “wisest Republican choice.”
https://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/richard-nixons-model-campaign/
“In 1968, the political experts were all looking in the wrong place, just as they would do in 2016. “The young, the antiwar groups, the mass demonstrations,” Buchanan remembers. But Nixon’s men picked up a different signal: The center was being ignored and was there for the grabbing. “You could carve off the conservative wing of the Democratic party, populist and conservative—Northern Catholics and Southern Protestants we called them then—and bring them into the Republican party of Goldwater and Nixon.” A few liberal Republicans would flee, but the GOP would “wind up with the larger half of the country.” Out of this came Nixon’s 1972 landslide, on a scale unthinkable today: 60 percent of the vote, forty-nine states.
“To hear Buchanan sift through this, with his easy command of electoral numbers and voting trends, is to feel how thin and hollow our politics has become. “Northern Catholics” and “Southern Protestants” still exist in America, but you wouldn’t know it. They have been crowded into an undifferentiated blur—white and Christian, with no shadings. But Nixon’s men grew up in a denser geography of ethnic difference, full of prickles and thorns. They used terms like “lower-middle-class Irish Catholic”: Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s description of Buchanan, in a letter sent when both were working for Nixon. The two were ideological foes but, when it came to elites, of one suspicious mind.
“Later accounts would cast all this as a politics of bitter polarization, the marshaling of resentments and grievances. And indeed it was, to a considerable extent—”the whole secret of politics—knowing who hates who,” as Kevin Phillips, a lawyer and the master strategist of Nixon’s new majority, summarized it at the time. Phillips was a prodigy who at fifteen had begun working out the intricacies of shifting voter allegiances going back to the nineteenth century. Even younger than Buchanan, he had gone on to work for Nixon’s 1968 campaign and in his administration. His 1969 book, The Emerging Republican Majority, elevated voter analysis into a rarefied art. “American voting patterns are a kaleidoscope of sociology, history, geography and economics,” Phillips wrote. “The threads are very tangled and complex, but they can be pulled apart.” Phillips unknotted those threads in formulations like this: “The sharpest Democratic losses of the 1960–68 period came among the Mormons and Southern-leaning traditional Democrats of the Interior Plateau.”
http://buchanan.org/blog/pat-buchanan-tried-make-america-great-126773
They were legit alt-Right groups in C’ville. They were doxxed.
Kessler is just a carney.
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Nothing is ever ‘legit’ in Virginia.
Its home to far too much of the swamp.
Much like California and the entertainment ‘industry.’
“You’ve figured out that Democrats are wrong about pretty much everything, but you just can’t give up your old Democrat ways, can you? “
I’m not a Democrat. But try some other lie, maybe you’ll find one that works.
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Dinesh has always had visions of grandeur.
But no foundation.
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What are you smoking today?
Years ago when I started on my journey as a Republican, these issues were first and foremost among my concerns, and every time I learned more about them, I realized that the abuses all led back to the 14th amendment.
Somehow the 14th amendment had opened up the floodgates of Judicial abuse, and created policies that were hated by the people of America, but imposed on them anyways, and against their will.
The latter portion of the 14th amendment grants too much power to judges to "interpret" things in ways that should not be allowed. It was a messy written vehicle for chaos to enter our system.
I always thought Nikki Haley should have punted on the Flag Controversy. It was unseemly for her as a first generation immigrant to speak on this subject while having no stake in that history.
If the descendants of the South Carolinians who fought in that war have decided to put that symbol behind them, that is one thing, but for someone who was not part of that history to toss it aside, was arrogantly presumptuous in my opinion.
I really wanted to see if the Voters were going to do anything about this, but She left before she would have to stand for their judgement.
Well said.
Agreed! The Left’s control of the academy & Media has made it very easy to act inappropriately; but disrespect for other people’s heritage, is not a virtue—to put it very mildly.
You always have my thumbs up.....Just remember that my 1/2 filipino step son is an x marine(always a Marine) Army Special Forces and Air Force...... Will retire soon...... But if you wanted to find a more American and Patriot group.....You won’t beat Filipinos.....Guaranteed!!!!
Sorry, no mislabelling by me and all the cherry picking is yours.
Ohioan: "When you contrive to suggest that the Jeffersonians--who basically provided the ethos of the Democratic Party up until the Bryan confusion, were ideologically the forerunners of FDR, LBJ, Clinton & Obama, you espouse nonsense."
Sorry, but the nonsense here is all yours.
Jefferson took over the anti-Administration, anti-Federalist faction of President Washington's government.
He provided them with the nullification doctrine we see today in "Sanctuary Cities" and marijuana legal States.
Jefferson was elected President thanks to the 3/5 rule, the same logic which today elects many big-city Democrats (counting non-voting illegals for apportionment purposes).
As President, Jefferson ignored the Constitution when it suited him -- I.e., Louisiana Purchase -- and proved remarkably intolerant of his former Vice President Aaron Burr's efforts to declare secession at pleasure.
Of course Jefferson was no socialist... well except for certain people who he believed should contribute according their abilities, and certain other people who should receive according to their needs... yes, except for that, Jefferson was no Democrat socialist.
Ohioan: "As for Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana?
Yes he did cut the corner there, as to Constitutional authorization, but it was for exactly the opposite considerations to those behind LBJ's Great Society, or the Leftists winking at the open Southern border."
Sure, there's always some excuse, and the excuses change from one generation to the next, but the fact remains that Jefferson, just like today's Democrats, ignored the Constitution when it suited his purposes.
Ohioan: "As to Bill Rusher's strategy, it was basically post-Nixon, and led to the Reagan Democrats increasingly voting Republican."
Sorry I missed your point here...
Ohioan: "You also appear to ignore the fact that the 14th Amendment was clearly an assault on the whole fabric of the Constitution, and was responsible for anchor babies, abortion, outlawing public religious expression... "
None of that was original intent of those who wrote, passed & ratified it.
Thanks for a fascinating & informative post, seriously,
Feel free to tell me what the point of it is.
Sure, but you are the child or grandchild of Democrats, most people are.
Democrats have a political culture -- I.e., name calling -- they use to enforce conformity of thought and which it appears some take with them when they graduate to more gentle Republican internal debates.
Anyway that's my theory, feel free to correct me with the real truth of this matter.
Nothing, but tell us when you finally gave it up.
Interesting.
“Feel free to tell me what the point of it is.”
Learn to read.
Aborted journey you mean, since you veered-off into some weirdness which says, "the devil Lincoln didn't free the slaves but he did enslave the free."
That's Southern Democrat -- Dixiecrat -- not Republican.
DiogenesLamp: "Somehow the 14th amendment had opened up the floodgates of Judicial abuse, and created policies that were hated by the people of America... "
None of that was original intent of those who wrote, passed & ratified it.
Yes, Earl Warren was a California Republican, so our side must take some of the blame, but most of his court were Democrats appointed by FDR, and the one genuine conservative, Rehnquist, voted no on Roe v Wade.
The other "no", White, was one of the the last of a now extinct breed -- conservative Democrat.
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