Donald Trump is not in our camp, nobody disputes that. He is very far away from being a White nationalist and he is light-years away from being aware of the Jewish question. Period. Having said that, he is a bulldozer, a wrecking ball. His mission, from our perspective, is not to fix things for White people once and for all. His mission, from our perspective, is to crack the wall for us, it is to clear the way for our ideas. We are not in a position to demand ideological purity from any leader, especially because we have NO leader. We have nothing. We are just people sharing views on the internet and now and then holding small events like the AMREN conferences or the London Forum. Sneering at Donald is not smart. We should support him, and should vote for him. Not because of his views and his goals, but because of ours. Trump is a ladder to something higher and more valuable. Let’s be smart and use it.
Trump unstumped: The Donald now has the largest lead of any Republican this election cycle, according to a recent poll showing the real estate developer is beating his nearest competitor (Ben Carson) by sixteen points [Trump lead grows; Clinton slips: poll, AFP, August 27, 2015]. He has displaced Scott Walker to take the lead in Iowa and, perhaps even more telling, has reversed his unfavorability ratings there in an unprecedented way. [This Iowa poll shows just how amazing Donald Trump’s rise has been, by Chris Cillizza, Washington Post, August 30, 2015]. The Beltway Right is unleashing a desperate attack against him, warning that he “is antithetical to the modern conservative movement” (true!) [The anti-Trump angst grows, by Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, August 30, 2015].
But the truth is that Trump represents a last chance for “conservatism” to remain relevant in American politics. And the borderline hysterical reaction against him reveals the embarrassing fact that political victory, or even influence, is less important to many Conservatism Inc. types than being seen as respectable in the eyes of elite liberal opinion.
Indeed, the problem with Trump seems to be that he may actually serve the interests of the Republican base—something deemed unacceptable inside the Beltway.
Thus Redstate co-founder (and notorious plagiarist) Ben Domenech writes that Trump is a threat to the “classically liberal” American right that “synthesizes populist tendencies and directs such frustrations towards the cause of limited government.” Trump, he intones, represents a turn towards “white identity politics” instead of “freedom,” and a possible regression to the populist European Right, which must be avoided. After all, “in rare places like Hungary, we see what happens when the populist-right actually wins, and it isn’t pretty.”
Perhaps Domenech is angry that Hungary’s Viktor Orban actually built a fence, instead of lying to voters like our Republican leaders do. But Domenech’s larger concern is that the American Right may reorient itself towards expressing the “narrow” interests of whites “in opposition to the interests of other ethnic groups… in a marked departure from the expansive view of the freedoms of a common humanity.”
Until the nation-breaking 1965 Immigration Act, of course, “whites” would have been called “Americans.”
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