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Are Republicans For Freedom Or White Identity Politics?
The Federalist ^
| August 21, 2015
| Ben Domenech, Publisher
Posted on 08/22/2015 10:22:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
tell me anyone else in the country that is for white identity politics.
everyone else wants to tear down and destroy white identity everything and promote everything else.
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posted on
08/22/2015 11:47:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: eekitsagreek
per this piece, it may make them white republicans.
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posted on
08/22/2015 11:49:15 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: jonrick46
proud to have been declining the race card since 1990.
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posted on
08/22/2015 11:50:35 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow, from black politics to white politics - Just love the reach of our own politicians when trying to gather votes!
Wonderful world we live in...
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posted on
08/22/2015 11:51:14 PM PDT
by
Deagle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican party isn’t minority hostile.
That is a Democratic false flag talking point
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posted on
08/23/2015 12:02:30 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But their brand of conservatism is frequently xenophobic, anti-capitalist, vaguely militarist, pro-state, and consistently anti-Semitic. You hear this FReepers? All you Trumpeters are anti-Semitic, racist, anti-capitalist statists. European politics proves it. So, there nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!
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posted on
08/23/2015 12:09:41 AM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
(I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
47
posted on
08/23/2015 12:11:22 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So much garbage in this article, one doesn't know even where to start. The very first sentence for example:
Donald Trump could transform the Republican Party into a coalition focused on white identity politics. We've seen this in Europe, and it's bad
What? Where was this idiot when Barack Obama transformed the Democratic Party into coalition based on black and Latino identity politics, gays, lesbians, transgenders and all kinds of sexual deviants and freaks, accompanied by an assault on Christians and white people? He considers that good?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ben Domenech is another
"suck-up" to the
"Elitists' Mindset" who can't come to grips with the FACTS.
So he tries to excuse it with the typical
"Race-Baiting" paint brush.
His "hero",
Charles Murray is another political snob who's made his money out of selling colleges what they want to hear, who is also in denial.
![](http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img-charles-murray_160950248897.jpg)
So he, also, is trying to sell Liberals, and Liberals who are ashamed to call themselves Liberals, but want to sell the label "neoconservatives", what they want to hear.
They use "white identity politics" to try to SMEAR a REAL plan of attack to return this country from SOCIALISTS' POLICIES that are destroying us,
and back to the principles and ideas our Founding Fathers used to MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT !
Would they ever use the term "BLACK identity politics" ?
Of course not !
Ben Domenech is just as bad as George Will !
And what offends these snobs so much, is
the very real possibility that they may lose their ILLEGAL ALIENS that are their baby-sitters, gardeners, house-keepers, and
financially indentured slaves.
His statement
"The idea that America is going to endure the blood and moral outrageover the deportation of 11 million people, including young children of illegals born herewho are constitutionally American citizens,
is absurd."
really shows what these educated LIBERALS are worried about.
Our Founding Fathers would have
"tarred and feathered, and rode" Ben Domenech
"out on a rail" .
But let's remind everyone of
just who these writers are.
The word "neocons" is ONLY used by LIBERALS, trying to insult Conservatives.
The is no such thing as a "NEW" Conservative. Conservatives ARE Conservative, plain and simple.
But read
this"
Liberals, Conservatives, and Neocons Learn the Difference!
March 12, 2014
Almost everybody is confused about the word "neoconservative" and its shortened form, "neocon."
I find that liberals/Democrats seem to use it as a sort of disrespectful form of "conservative,"and probably have no idea the the words have distinct meanings.
On the other hand, I know of some conservatives who define it as "new conservatives,"meaning people who were formerly something else, but have converted to conservatism.
Both are wrong.
As near as I can tell, "neo-" doesn't apply to any other word that way formerly not X, but having become X.
No, "neo-" almost always refers to an ideology that is different from the root word in a significant way.Neoconfederates are not people who want to secede and become a separate country.
They want the ideals of the Confederacy to be applied to modern politics, more or less, but not all of them.
Neoliberal is a more vague term,but it specifically applies to people who may have SOME of the attributes of liberals,
but who contradict liberalism in their advocacy of free trade and privatization
and other ideas usually thought of as conservative.
And, finally, neoconservatives are mostly those moderate cold war LIBERALS who defected to the Republican party when the Democrats got totally flaky with McGovern and his ilk.
Their ultimate origin, however, is not the Democratic party but the Trotskyite movement.
Jack Kerwick elaborates.
Read
this:
Most "Conservatives" Are Secretly Neoconservatives
12 March, 2014, by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.
A colleague of mine has drawn my attention to a Washington Post blog post Why Most Conservatives Are Secretly Liberals by a Professor John Sides, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
Sides agrees with fellow political scientists Christopher Ellis and James Stimson, co-authors of Ideology in America.
Ellis and Stimson CONTEND thatAmerica is, at bottom, a center-left nation,
for while 30 percent of self-described liberals are consistent in endorsing liberal policy prescriptions,
the same sort of consistency can be ascribed to only 15 percent of conservatives.
And another 30 percent of conservatives actually advance liberal positions.
In short, Americans may TALK the talk of conservatism, but they WALK the walk of liberalism.
That is, they favor Big Government.
Sides, Ellis, and Stimson, it seems clear to me, are liberals.
It doesnt require much reading between the lines to discern this.
That they associate liberals, and liberals ALONE, with such virtues as consistency and such lofty ideals as a cleaner environment and a stronger safety net is enough to bear this out.
Yet in peddling the ridiculous, patently absurd notion thatconservatives see the media as PROMOTING conservatism,
the verdict regarding their liberalism is seen for the NO-BRAINER that it is.
There is, though, another CLUE that unveils Sides, Ellis, and Stimsons ideological PREJUDICES:They equate the term liberalism with a robust affirmation of Big Government.
They treat liberalism synonymously with its modern, Welfare-Statist incarnation.
There is no mention here of the fact that, originally, liberalism referred toa vision that attached supreme value to individual liberty,
a vision in which government played, and had to play, a minimal role in the lives of its citizens.
And there is no mention of the fact that, if liberalism is now an ugly word,
it is because the very same socialists who made socialism an ugly word hijacked liberalism when it enjoyed a favorable reception
and visited upon it the same fate that they secured for socialism.
In other words, if Sides himself wanted to be bluntly honest, hed have to admit that liberals are secretly socialists.
Still, though their premises are bogus, Sides and his colleagues draw the correct conclusion thatmost conservatives are NOTHING OF THE KIND.
The truth of the matter is thatthe vast majority of contemporary conservatives are neoconservatives.
Now, neoconservatism is a term that hasnt the best reputation.
It has ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL,
and most of its proponents have DISAVOWED IT to the point of, preposterously, condemning it as an anti-Semitic SLUR.
But George W. Bush and his party inflicted potentially irrevocable damage upon the label.
Conservatism is a more marketable label.
Nevertheless, the reality is that neoconservatism is indeed a distinct school of political thought.
Beyond this, it is fundamentally different in kind from classical conservatism.
Irving Kristol, the so-called Godfather of neoconservatism, an appellation that he readily endorsed, ADMITS this in noting boththat neoconservatism exists
and that conservative can be misleading when used to describe it.
Neoconservatism, you see, is THE INVENTION OF LEFTISTS like Kristol himself.
When the Democratic Party began veering too far to the Left in the 1960s, Kristol and more moderate leftists began turning toward the Republican Party.
So as TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES FROM traditional conservatives, they coined the term neoconservatism.
Neoconservatives, Kristol asserts, are not at all hostile to the idea of a welfare state even if they reject the vast and energetic bureaucracies created by the Great Society.
Neoconservatives ENDORSE social security, unemployment insurance, and some kind of family assistance plan, among other measures.
But whats most interesting, particularly at a time when ObamaCare has DIVIDED the country, is that Kristol reminds us thatneoconservatives SUPPORT some form of national health insurance.
In all truthfulness, however, neither a degree in political science nor an IQ above four is required to know thatneoconservatism has always championed Big Government
for it is its foreign policy vision more than anything else that distinguishes it from its competitors.
For neoconservatives, America is exceptional in being, as Kristol puts it, a creedal nation,the only nation in all of human history to have been founded upon an ideology of equality, of natural rights.
The U.S.A., then, has a responsibility to promote this ideology throughout the world.
And it is by way of a potentially boundless military i.e. Big Government that this ideological patriotism is to be executed.
Had the foregoing political scientists been looking in the right places, they would BE FORCED TO CONCLUDE that most conservatives are secretly neoconservatives.
So, you see that those WHO THEY CALL
"neoconservatives", are really nothing more than
the old moderate side of the DemocRATS.
It's just THAT SIMPLE .
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posted on
08/23/2015 12:13:15 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
False dichotomy. Republicans can be for both. That’s what freedom is about, especially when you have every other kind of identity politics being played. Except with what is being called white identity politics above, it is going to benefit American blacks, American Hispanics, et al. A rising tide doesn’t just float some boats.
To: smokingfrog
No, but both cater to minority politics and that is disgusting! When politicians cater to Americans then I will listen (without skin/nationality references)!
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posted on
08/23/2015 12:38:17 AM PDT
by
Deagle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We’re for freedom. And for Americans whether white, black, brown, red or whatever. Americans, not illegal aliens.
52
posted on
08/23/2015 12:53:38 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Nep Nep
Besides America, previously.
53
posted on
08/23/2015 12:56:49 AM PDT
by
sakic
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ben Domenech, Publisher...
What a long winded idiot.
Just call Trump a racist white bastard that wants to be Hitler and be done with it.
Where was all this uproar over Obama, when he came long?
He’s been ruling by edict, and where was the outrage?
They charge Trump might do the same thing and all of a sudden it’s tyrannical and just WRONG!
I’ve never seen a more liver-lipped bunch of “so-called” Conservatives in my lifetime.
Where was this fervor in 2008 and 2012 against Obama?
This writer reminds me of the neighbor dog that comes over to your front lawn to wipe his dirty ass.
Get this hound some Depends for fido, and send him on his way.
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posted on
08/23/2015 1:00:20 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“White Identity Politics” sounds pretty good to me. Especially when the alternative is “La Raza Identity Politics”, or “Black Identity Politics” — which are apparently just find and dandy to advocate, for some reason.
55
posted on
08/23/2015 1:27:24 AM PDT
by
montag813
(Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The media at the behest of their scared, political progressive, elitist masters think that they can trump Trump by dropping the threadbare racist card on him. The more they attack him the more it draws out all that haven’t voted in generations to vote for him.
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posted on
08/23/2015 1:28:05 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Domenech is a co-founder of RedState.com with Eric Erickson. In other words...you could stop reading this bilge right there
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posted on
08/23/2015 1:29:13 AM PDT
by
montag813
(Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Compares Trump to Jean-Marie Le Pen. Nice.
Just like his partner Erickson compared Trump to a pedophile.
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posted on
08/23/2015 1:32:11 AM PDT
by
montag813
(Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
To: Yosemitest
You are overthinking this. It’s really much more simple. Neo-conservative is simply a perjorative term invented to tar anyone strong on national defense. The only other common use of the term neo in American politics previously was neo-Nazis. The use of the term is intended to link people like Cheney and Bolton with Nazis in people’s minds. They are also doing the same with the term “climate change deniers”. Obviously one cannot “deny” a prediction about the future, even if it were completely accurate. To accuse someone of denying future events is absurd on the face of it. However the left knows the only other common use of the term “denier” is “Holocaust deniers” who just happen to usually be, yep, neo-Nazis.
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posted on
08/23/2015 2:54:52 AM PDT
by
Hugin
("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans have held to the idea that they are unified by a fusionist ideological coalition with a shared belief in limited government,
yeah...except they don’t anymore. We elected “tigers” who couldn’t/wouldn’t blow the fuzz off a dandelion.
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posted on
08/23/2015 3:28:18 AM PDT
by
Adder
(No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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