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“This is something he has in common with a lot of Americans. Sides and Tesler cite the work of political scientists James Stimson and Christopher Ellis, who have found that those who identify as conservatives often take liberal positions on things like the size of government. These voters are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally” liberal.

(Okay--please note that the following observation is not meant as a slam on Donald Trump (believe it or not). It is merely an observation of a phenomenon I have suspected for some time.)

In other words, these voters are white racial identitarians.

I used to believe that religion was objective, abstract, and universal (in fact I still do; it's one the things that make me the way I am). But I long ago noticed liberals insisted that "religion" (at least our own traditional beliefs) was an invention of white people to conquer and exploit "people of color." The same liberals who lambasted the Bible, made fun of creationists (by using mock Southern accents), and supported every immoral abomination to come into anyone's head practically worshiped Black chrstians (literalism, fundamentalism, ignorance, xenophobia, Southern accents and all) as "gxds." This didn't make any sense to me and still doesn't. I merely see now what's going on.

What we are experiencing now with the Trump phenomenon is the same thing from the opposite side--people to whom "conservatism" doesn't mean anything specific but a vague notion that America belongs to white people, who are reflexively labeled "right wing" but who basically want socialism that benefits them and doesn't demonize them. In other words: old time nineteenth century Populists (Bible-thumpers who wanted to nationalize a lot of stuff).

I must confess that in the nineteen years I've been online I have monitored and visited the web sites of neo-Nazi Jew-haters. One such site insisted that all our problems are in fact racial and could be solved simply by getting rid of all non-whites. Another said that while conservative opposition to big government was understandable, in order to solve our problems we would for a while have to have a bigger government than we have ever had.

Food for thought.

"conservatism" doesn't mean anything specific but a vague notion that America belongs to white people"

That is nonsense. And racist.

One of Trump's major strengths is that he spits in the eye of people that feel the need to bring race into every discussion. I've had enough of it myself.

The reason the conservative brand is dead is because the so-called leaders of the movement destroyed it. It means nothing in the mouth of a politician.

"White", in the sense that you are using it is prejudicial. Its a sideways insult. This election is about nothing less the survival of the middleclass which includes whites, blacks Hispanics, women, gays, Indians and any other freaking demographic marker the dhimmis want to label us with.

Stop thinking like a democrat.

In college I was required to read "The Turner Diaries" as part of a political science course.

I was surprised by the ending at the time, but completely understand it now.

At the end of the book, the triumphant white nationalists run the now "liberated" white USA the way the Khmer Rouge ran Cambodia.

All racial enemies are liquidated, all white "collaborators" and fraternizers with the enemy are punished and reeducated, and many are executed as examples.

The victorious white masses are deurbanized and go to work on collective farms to return to an agrarian utopia.

Basically, these guys want a racially purified white North Korea.