Whitney: Is BLM The Mask Behind Which The Oligarchs Operate?

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 23:40

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whitney-blm-mask-behind-which-oligarchs-operate

Authored by Mike Whitney,
Here’s your BLM Pop Quiz for the day: What do “Critical Race Theory”, “The 1619 Project”, and Homeland Security’s “White Supremacist” warning tell us about what’s going on in America today?
-- They point to deeply-embedded racism that shapes the behavior of white people
-- They suggest that systemic racism cannot be overcome by merely changing attitudes and laws
-- They alert us to the fact that unresolved issues are pushing the country towards a destructive race war
-- They indicate that powerful agents — operating from within the state– are inciting racial violence to crush the emerging “populist” majority that elected Trump to office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to transform America into a tyrannical third-world “shithole”.

Which of these four statements best explains what’s going on in America today?
If you chose Number 4, you are right. We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive outbreak of racial violence and mayhem. We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned, insurgency-type operation that involves myriad logistical components including vast, nationwide riots, looting and arson, as well as an extremely impressive ideological campaign. “Critical Race Theory”, “The 1619 Project”, and Homeland Security’s “White Supremacist” warning are as much a part of the Oligarchic war on America as are the burning of our cities and the toppling of our statues. All three, fall under the heading of “ideology”, and all three are being used to shape public attitudes on matters related to our collective identity as “Americans”.

The plan is to overwhelm the population with a deluge of disinformation about their history, their founders, and the threats they face, so they will submissively accept a New Order imposed by technocrats and their political lackeys. This psychological war is perhaps more important than Operation BLM which merely provides the muscle for implementing the transformative “Reset” that elites want to impose on the country. The real challenge is to change the hearts and minds of a population that is unwaveringly patriotic and violently resistant to any subversive element that threatens to do harm to their country. So, while we can expect this propaganda saturation campaign to continue for the foreseeable future, we don’t expect the strategy will ultimately succeed. At the end of the day, America will still be America, unbroken, unflagging and unapologetic.

Let’s look more carefully at what is going on.

On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security issued a draft report stating that “White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States”. According to an article in Politico:
“…all three draft (versions of the document) describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups…. John Cohen, who oversaw DHS’s counterterrorism portfolio from 2011 to 2014, said the drafts’ conclusion isn’t surprising.
“This draft document seems to be consistent with earlier intelligence reports from DHS, the FBI, and other law enforcement sources: that the most significant terror-related threat facing the US today comes from violent extremists who are motivated by white supremacy and other far-right ideological causes,” he said….
“Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social, ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States,” the draft reads. “Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists …will pose the most persistent and lethal threat.”..(“DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat” Politico)

This is nonsense. White supremacists do not pose the greatest danger to the country, that designation goes to the left-wing groups that have rampaged through more than 2,000 US cities for the last 100 days. Black Lives Matter and Antifa-generated riots have decimated hundreds of small businesses, destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of merchants and their employees, and left entire cities in a shambles. The destruction in Kenosha alone far exceeds the damage attributable to the activities of all the white supremacist groups combined.

So why has Homeland Security made this ridiculous and unsupportable claim? Why have they chosen to prioritize white supremacists as “the most persistent and lethal threat” when it is clearly not true?

There’s only one answer: Politics.

The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding. In this case, the honchos are invoking the race card (“white supremacists”) to divert attention from their sinister destabilization program, their looting of the US Treasury (for their crooked Wall Street friends), their demonizing of the mostly-white working class “America First” nationalists who handed Trump the 2016 election, and their scurrilous scheme to establish one-party rule by installing their addlepated meat-puppet candidate (Biden) as president so he can carry out their directives from the comfort of the Oval Office. That’s what’s really going on.

DHS’s announcement makes it possible for state agents to target legally-armed Americans who gather with other gun owners in groups that are protected under the second amendment. Now the white supremacist label will be applied more haphazardly to these same conservatives who pose no danger to public safety. The draft document should be seen as a warning to anyone whose beliefs do not jibe with the New Liberal Orthodoxy that white people are inherently racists who must ask forgiveness for a system they had no hand in creating (slavery) and which was abolished more than 150 years ago.
The 1619 Project” is another part of the ideological war that is being waged against the American people. The objective of the “Project” is to convince readers that America was founded by heinous white men who subjugated blacks to increase their wealth and power. According to the World Socialist Web Site:

“The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of American history is rooted in race hatred—specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of “black people” by “white people.” Hannah-Jones writes in the series’ introduction: “Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.”

This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and development….Hannah-Jones’s reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive racial antagonisms from innate biological processes….where does this racism come from? It is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American “white people.” Thus, it must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions...
...No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided arguments.” 

- “The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history”, World Socialist Web Site

Clearly, Hannah-Jones was enlisted by big money patrons who needed an ideological foundation to justify the massive BLM riots they had already planned as part of their US color revolution. The author –perhaps unwittingly– provided the required text for vindicating widespread destruction and chaos carried out in the name of “social justice.”
As Hannah-Jones says, “Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country”, which is to say that it cannot be mitigated or reformed, only eradicated by destroying the symbols of white patriarchy (Our icons, our customs, our traditions and our history.), toppling the existing government, and imposing a new system that better reflects the values of the burgeoning non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the rationale for sustained civil unrest, deepening political polarization and violent revolution.

All of these goals conveniently coincide with the aims of the NWO Oligarchs who seek to replace America’s Constitutional government with a corporate Superstate ruled by voracious Monopolists and their globalist allies. So, while Hannah-Jones treatise does nothing to improve conditions for black people in America, it does move the country closer to the dystopian dream of the parasite class; Corporate Valhalla.

Then there is “Critical Race Theory” which provides the ideological icing on the cake. The theory is part of the broader canon of anti-white dogma which is being used to indoctrinate workers. White employees are being subjected to “reeducation” programs that require their participation as a precondition for further employment . The first rebellion against critical race theory, took place at Sandia Labs which is a federally-funded research agency that designs America’s nuclear weapons. According to journalist Christopher F. Rufo:
“Senator @HawleyMO and @SecBrouillette have launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated their purge against conservatives.”

Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative employees will be purged.” (“There is a civil war erupting at @SandiaLabs.” Christopher F Rufo)

It all sounds so Bolshevik. Here’s more info on how this toxic indoctrination program works:

“Treasury Department …

The Treasury Department held a training session telling employees that “virtually all White people contribute to racism” and demanding that white staff members “struggle to own their racism” and accept their “unconscious bias, White privilege, and White fragility.”

The National Credit Union Administration

The NCUA held a session for 8,900 employees arguing that America was “founded on racism” and “built on the blacks of people who were enslaved.” Twitter thread here and original source documents here.

Sandia National Laboratories

Last year, Sandia National Labs—which produces our nuclear arsenal—held a three-day reeducation camp for white males, teaching them how to deconstruct their “white male culture” and forcing them to write letters of apology to women and people of color. Whistleblowers from inside the labs tell me that critical race theory is now endangering our national security. Twitter thread hereand original source documents here.

Argonne National Laboratories

Argonne National Labs hosts trainings calling on white lab employees to admit that they “benefit from racism” and atone for the “pain and anguish inflicted upon Black people.” Twitter thread here.

Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security hosted a Training on “microaggressions, microinequities, and microassaults” where white employees were told that they had been “socialized into oppressor roles.” Twitter thread here and original source documents here.” (“Summary of Critical Race Theory Investigations”, Christopher F Rufo)
On September 4, Donald Trump announced his administration “would prohibit federal agencies from subjecting government employees to “critical race theory” or “white privilege” seminar...

“It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda,” read a Friday memo from the Office of Budget and Management Director Russ Vought. “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce … The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions.”

The next day, September 5, Trump announced that the Department of Education was going to see whether the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project was being used in school curricula and– if it was– then those schools would be ineligible for federal funding. Conservative pundits applauded Trump’s action as a step forward in the “culture wars”, but it’s really much more than that. Trump is actually foiling an effort by the domestic saboteurs who continue look for ways to undermine democracy, reduce the masses of working-class people to grinding poverty and hopelessness, and turn the country into a despotic military outpost ruled by bloodsucking tycoons, mercenary autocrats and duplicitous elites. Alot of thought and effort went into this malign ideological project. Trump derailed it with a wave of the hand. That’s no small achievement.

Bottom line: “Critical Race Theory”, “The 1619 Project”, and Homeland Security’s “White Supremacist” warning represent the ideological foundation upon which the war on America is based. The “anti-white” dogma is the counterpart to the massive riots that have rocked the country. These phenomena are two spokes on the same wheel. They are designed to work together to achieve the same purpose. The goal is create a “racial” smokescreen that conceals the vast and willful destruction of the US economy, the $5 trillion dollar wealth-transfer that was provided to Wall Street, and the ferocious attack on the emerging, mainly-white working class “populist” movement that elected Trump and which rejects the globalist plan to transform the world into a borderless free trade zone ruled by cutthroat monopolists and their NWO allies.

This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer that must be eradicated.

SUBURBAN WHITES AND THE COMING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY

 

by Richard Spencer 

December 15, 2019

SUBURBAN WHITES AND THE COMING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY

Sorry, Virginia, White Professionals Are Turning Your State—And Your Country—Blue

In 2009, the blog Stuff White People Like took the Internet (or at least my corner of it) by storm. Published on a modest WordPress template and featuring only around 150 pages, it quickly gained a readership in the tens of millions and spawned two books, before petering out the following year.

It’s chief author, the then-unknown Christian Lander, mastered a distanced, anthropological tone in his semi-parodic cataloguing of the lifestyles and mores of “left-leaning, city-dwelling, white people” in North America.

Christian Lander

Notable “Stuffs” include “Religions their parents don’t belong to” (#2), “Asian Girls” (#11),“Yoga” (#15), “Breakfast places” (#36), “Art’s Degrees” (#47), and “Sea Salt” (#119). No entries were written on, say, “Monster Truck Rallies,” “Garth Brooks,” “Religions their parents belonged to,” or “The New England Patriots.” “Donald Trump” would be something “Whites” distinctly disliked, and, as John Derbyshire quipped, probably none of the subjects even “knows what the Confederate flag looks like.”1 Stuff White People Like was about bourgeois status signaling, status anxiety, and, you could say, status irony.

As Lander wrote on this very matter:

White people hate a lot of stuff (white people who vote republican, television, Vin Diesel movies, SUVs, fast food) but every once in a while they turn that hate into sweet irony. . . . The most horrific recent example is Trucker hats . . .

From “Irony” (#50)

Many detected a certain “right-wing” undercurrent to Lander’s mockery. Take, for instance, his comments on “Diversity” (#7):

White people love ethnic diversity, but only as it relates to restaurants.

Even more troubling, “Having Black Friends” (#14):

Every white person wants a black friend like Barack [Obama]: good-looking, well-spoken, and non-violent.

In the early days of the Alt-Right, Stuff White People Like inspired the term “SWiPL,” which was the “Cuck” of its time. Like “Cuck,” it was a punchy term of derision. The SWiPL was not simply a WASP, and didn’t just have fastidious tastes; he was the American White who had marinated in leftism at university, believes in “diversity” as a replacement religion, and enthusiastically votes for Barack Obama. He possesses an oblivious confidence that his own White privilege will never end up on the chopping block.

The SWiPL meme of a decade ago has been on my mind recently as the implications of demographics on recent elections have been hotly debated among the “dissident Right.” Put simply, we are getting it wrong. And this has much to do with a “mis-underestimating” of the power of the SWiPL. The psychological type we lampooned 10 years ago will become the decisive factor in coming Republican loses and, in all likelihood, Donald Trump’s defeat in November.

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Is Demography Destiny?

2019 has not been kind to Republicans. In Virginia, Democrats took control of the legislature. In Kentucky, Republican governor Matt Bevin was ousted in favor of Democrat Andy Beshear. And in Louisiana, Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards was re-elected. All solid Red States . . . All places that Trump recently visited to hold mass rallies . . . and all of them became sites of major Republican defeats.

As the results came in, the hard Right sounded a familiar refrain: “demography is destiny!” The poor old GOP won’t be able to win any more elections due to mass immigration. Ann Coulter captured the sentiment in the title of her weekly column, “Yes, Virginia, Immigration Is Turning The Country Blue.” According to Coulter, “What happened was: Democrats brought in new voters.

In 1970, only one out of every 100 Virginians was foreign-born. By 2012, one in nine Virginians was foreign-born. The foreign-born vote overwhelmingly, by about 80 percent, for Democrats. They always have and they always will—especially now that our immigration policies aggressively discriminate in favor of the poorest, least-educated, most unskilled people on Earth. They arrive in need of a LOT of government services.

In late fall, a band of so-called “Groypers” took up Coulter’s charge and raided the Q&A sessions of the mainstream conservative organization Turning Point USA. The Groypers harangued TPUSA’s founder, Charlie Kirk, claiming that, unless immigration is halted, Trump will lose and America won’t maintain its “Christian values.”

But what is really going on under the surface of electoral politics? Unquestionably, immigration demographics is a critical component of elections, and everything Coulter writes is accurate, to some degree, from a bird’s eye view. But sometimes, looking at the forest can blind you to the trees. In the near-term—for the next dozen years—electoral demographics will operate quite differently than American nationalists and the Alt-Right want to admit.

Namely, the “Browning of America” brought on by Hispanic immigration is dwarfed in importance by two factors.

1. The rapid movement into the suburbs (away from urban and rural areas) of educated Whites. We’ll call them SWiPs (Suburban White Professionals), with a nod to the SWiPL meme of yore.
2. The abandonment of the GOP by SWiPs. We’ll call this trend “Whexit.”

African-Americans are the prime example of “block voting”: as a race, they support Democrats at 85-90 percent in effectively any election. Latinos’s support is less intense, usually around 65 percent Democratic. (This owes in large part to the fact that “Hispanic” and “Latino” are linguistic categories that cover a culturally diverse group; “Hispanics” range from ethnic Europeans to those of Amerindian backgrounds).

Whites, on the other hand, are Republican at rates between 50 and 65 percent, depending on the part of the country. We are split down the middle and more likely to show movement. As Coulter and her like point out, Hispanic immigration is clearly a net benefit to Democrats. But Whites, who make up 70 percent of the electorate, are far more important in determining political outcomes.

So, sorry, Virginia, White suburban professional are turning your state—and your country—Blue. This in itself is a profoundly important demographic transformation. The seemingly natural constituency for the party of big business, wealth, and economic opportunity is abandoning it for the Left.

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The Blue Wave Rolls On…

As The National Policy Institute predicted, the 2018 Midterms marked a major political turnaround: the Democrats took control of the House with the addition of 40 seats. While many conservative commentators pooh-poohed the results, the fact is, 2018 marked a “wave” election by any definition—a Blue Wave, not the Red one predicted by the President. In NPI’s view, it signals long-term hegemony. 2018 marked the highest turnout for a Midterm in a century, and the Democrats’ margin of victory was greater than its last seizure of power in 2006. It even beat the Republicans famous triumphs in 1994 and 2010.

This all occurred, as I will discuss, due to a major shift in the White vote; this continues in 2019, and it will likely be decisive in 2020.

Reporter Dave Weigel discerned this trend more than a year before the Democrats took back the House by winning over the SWiPs.

Virginia

In Virginia, the social and demographic change that flipped the state is not “new immigrants” but the expansion of the suburbs. The areas surrounding Washington, DC, are exploding: three out of the four most populous districts are in Northern Virginia, and “Nova” has accounted for 60 percent of the state’s overall population growth. Amazon’s decision to build its second U.S. headquarters in Nova capped off the trend. According to the Washington Post,

The region’s growth is on display every day in the form of residential developments being built in Prince William, massive data center complexes erected in once-rural parts of Loudoun County and a new skyline lighting up the night in Fairfax County’s Tysons Corner, where car dealerships and malls used to dominate the landscape.

In the mid-20th century, Dad commuted to the city to work, and Mom and the kids stayed in the quiet ‘burbs. Today, we see the creation of an urban-suburbia sprawl, where White professionals live and work.

This trend is occurring nationally. As analyzed by William Frey, over the past decade, big cities have been growing at a markedly slower rate; “the ‘back to the city’ trend seen at the beginning of the decade has reversed.” Major metropolises such as Dallas and San Francisco are declining towards zero growth, and New York and Chicago are now losing people on an annual basis.

Geographically speaking, Virginia remains a Red State, as the heartland of the state is still solidly Republican. This is unchanged despite a Court-ordered redistricting plan, which ruled that earlier Republican efforts to structure the state amounted to “gerrymandering” that disadvantaged Black voters (a claim that is almost undoubtedly true). As a result, a few redrawn districts in the southeast of the state flipped from Red to Blue.

The Washington Post

But the new power center of Virginia politics is not in Black or Hispanic districts; it is the northwest of the state surrounding DC, with the geographically smaller, densely populated suburban areas. Scouring the list of Democratic winners in 2019, few Hispanic surnames are to be found. What we find instead are a new class of SWiP candidates: Whites, Jews, and assimilated Asians, all from places where Panera Bread, Lulu Lemon attire, and vanilla macchiatos are found in abundance.

Louisiana

In Louisiana, the liberals’ narrative that Trump was responsible for a Democrat winning is demonstrably wrong—and so is the idea that Hispanics are fueling a Democratic surge. Louisiana is a Red State in presidential elections, but a Democratic governor is hardly unusual. Democrats have dominated since the 1880s; in the past 25 years, Louisiana has alternated governors between the two parties. Old habits die hard, and John Bel Edwards is the kind of “socially conservative, fiscally liberal” man that fits the state perfectly. Edwards’s re-election (51 to 49 percent) was far closer than his win in 2015, when he ran away with a victory, carrying 56 percent of the vote. Turnout was way up as well, by some 30 percent. Democrats increased their total votes by 20 percent; the Republicans, more than doubled that, at 45 percent. Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, it’s safe to say that his rallies inspired greater participation and made the election much closer than it would otherwise have been.

The New York Times

Regardless, Democrats are not being voted into office by immigrants. Louisiana’s White population (60 percent) approximates the country at large. However, its Black population (33 percent) is far higher, and its Hispanic and foreign-born populations, only one-third of national averages. Edwards carried the largely Black and rural parishes in the northeast of the state; however, as in Virginia, Democratic power centers were suburban areas surrounding Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.

Texas

Texas remains the foundation stone of the GOP’s national electoral strategy and is a favorite reference point for the “demographics is destiny” crowd. “If Texas goes Blue,” they say, “the Republican Party is done for!” No doubt, Hispanics and immigrants affect elections here more than in any other state; however, it’s worth noting that in 2016, even if Trump had lost Texas, he still would have won an Electoral College victory.

The Lone Star State has been “Deep Red” since the mid-‘90s, despite the fact that Whites have been a numerical minority since 2000. In 2018, Whites made up just 56 percent of the electorate in the Senate race between Senator Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger, Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Sixty-six percent of Whites voted Republican—a rate that’s 15-18 percent higher than the national one—granting Cruz a hard-fought victory (or perhaps stay of execution).

Generally, the trends we saw in Virginia hold in Texas. Republicans still won the majority of counties. But O’Rourke won the five most populous counties that contain its biggest cities (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin), along with the heavily Hispanic areas in the southeast of the State.

FiveThirtyEight.com

Cruz’s unshakeable base was Whites without college degrees, 74 percent of whom voted for him and most of whom live in rural counties. Texas remains “exceptional”—and will remain so for a decade—because suburban Whites still vote Republican—in Cruz’s case, at a rate of 55 percent. Cruz even won a small majority among Whites with a degree, which is not happening in Virginia. But as White suburbia goes Blue—and all indications say it will—so goes Texas.

Texas Republicans became hegemonic during a period in which Latinos expanded to 30 percent of population. The Party will soon be dethroned, not by Mexican immigrants, but by the SWiPs.

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Understanding The Whexit

In the wake of the 2016 election, the mainstream media published countless articles about “Trump and the rise of White Nationalism” and the refashioning of the GOP as a party of racial populism and resentment. This was not entirely hysterical. The Alt-Right writ large burst into public awareness due to its staunch and outlandish support of Donald Trump. Moreover, the GOP remains a mono-racial party (90 percent White) as the country has increasingly become “majority-minority.”

In 2016, Trump won a slightly lower percentage of the total vote than Mitt Romney did in 2012, in an election with significantly more turnout. But Trump achieved a stunning Electoral College victory by winning different White people than Republicans had in the recent past. He did this decisively in Midwestern states that went for Obama in 2012 but flipped to Trump in 2016: Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Both Romney and Trump were famous capitalists, but gave off quite different vibes. Romney promised to “let Detroit die” in the wake of the financial crisis; Trump, on the other hand, offered a nostalgic vision of a return to the industrial-resource economy of the 1950s. While both men’s promises proved illusory, it was Trump who touched Midwesterners’ hearts.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics estimates that between 8 and 9 million people who voted for Obama in 2012 supported Trump in 2016. And many who had never voted before came out for Trump. This shift—of the White working class from Democrat to Republican—has been happening for more than a quarter century. When Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, 59 percent of the Democratic voting base was made up of non-Hispanic Whites without a college degree, according to Pew Research. In Trump’s America, Whites without a college degree make up 58 percent of Republican voters.

Trump won in 2016 with working-class support. But the redefinition of the party has come at a cost—namely, the hemorrhaging of SWiPs. Lost among the hyperboles about White Nationalism in the 2016 election is the simple fact that Trump won fewer total White voters than did Romney. (And for what it’s worth, he increased Republican support among Blacks and Hispanics.) Romney’s vision of a consumer-capitalist America was apparently far more palatable to SWiPs than Trump’s promises to bring back coal-mining jobs. In 2010, the GOP won 65 percent of the White vote in the Midterms. In 2018, this deflated dramatically to 54 percent, according to Pew Research.

And the GOP loses support in suburban areas as they become more developed and wealthy. After the 2018 midterms, David Balz of the Washington Post examined “competitive” Congressional districts; he subdivided these into five categories: “rural,” “suburban-rural,” “sparse suburban,” “dense suburban,” and “urban-suburban.” One can imagine what these tags refer to, from the agrarian countryside to small towns with strip malls to bedroom communities to the quasi-cities of Nova or the DFW “metroplex.” In 2018, Republicans won 25 of the 30 competitive districts classified as “rural” or “suburban rural” (83 percent!). Among districts that were “sparse,” “dense,” and “urban-suburban,” the GOP captured only 20 of 54 (37 percent) of the seats.

Whexit is happening across the board as elections become more “nationalized.” The key issue is that this will continue to take place even if—miraculously—immigration were halted entirely tomorrow morning.

Some of this has to do with Trump’s policies, such as his tougher stance on detaining illegal immigrants; some of this has to do with Trump’s controversial and increasingly bizarre output on Twitter. But it ultimately comes down to the SWiPL morality Christian Lander brilliantly theorized a decade ago. Trump has not been a break from the past (as I had hoped), but instead has become a caricature of the GOP as the party of stupidity, nuttiness, and racism—all things the SWiPs despise.

The SWiPLs of the first decade of the 2000s were urbanites, residing in Manhattan or gentrified Brooklyn. The SWiPs of today have grown up and moved to the ‘burbs, but they have maintained the moral system of the Williamsburg hipster. If there’s anything worse than wearing a trucker hat non-ironically, it’s voting Republican. It’s not just déclassé; it’s downright evil.

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The Dirt Gap

At the end of the George W. Bush era, dissident commentator Steve Sailer proposed that “Affordable Family Formation” was the underlying structure of the Red State/Blue State divide. There is a “dirt gap,” in Sailer’s words, between the “liberal” east and west coasts and “conservative” Middle America; between the densely populated cities on the seaboards, hemmed in by oceans and traditional urban planning, which drive up real-estate values, and the sprawling South and Midwest, where land is cheap. In “flyover country,” a family of four with a combined income of $60,000 can afford to buy a big house with a yard; in New York City, an urban professional or “cat lady” can barely make rent on a one-bedroom apartment. Middle America is thus naturally attracted to the party of “family values,” whereas urbanites resonate with the politics of personal liberation. The lines of causality aren’t exactly made clear by Sailer; that is, whether individuals are transformed into “conservatives” or “liberals” by real-estate prices, or whether people with child-bearing or individualist instincts gravitate to different environments. Regardless, Sailer’s thesis holds up in 2019: the lower the population density, the more likely the GOP is to succeed among White voters.

The problem for Republicans is that the Party is failing with the fastest growing and increasingly wealthy members of the White race. Race itself remains the most salient aspect of American elections: with the Democrats as the multiracial representatives of “2050 America,” and the Republicans as the working- and middle- class White People’s Party in everything but name. But underneath this divide is another “identity” issue that can’t be underestimated.

The Democrats are the Party of the “New Class” of Suburban White Professionals, who are wealthier and most impactful on society, politics, and culture. Some in this New Class are non-White and foreign-born, but in their lifestyles, tastes, and affluence, they are indistinguishable from SWiPs (even, to a degree, from the SWiPLs of old). Contrary to Ann Coulter’s claim that the Democrats will be defined by “needy” immigrants demanding “big government,” they will instead be defined by wealthy Whites and New Class immigrants who administer big government, big business, and big finance. This Managerial Elite benefits from mass immigration (at least for the time being), and at the very least does not see immigrants as threatening the cozy environs of suburban sprawl, luxury apartments, and chain restaurants.

Make fun of the SWiPs all you want. But such people will vote Donald Trump out of office in 2020 and administer Democratic hegemony for some time to come.

https://nationalpolicy.institute/2019/12/15/whexit-and-the-new-class/

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Notes

1. Derbyshire speculates further: “My first guess was that to the degree there is anything racially distinctive about the sensibility on display in Lander’s book, it is Jewish.” ↩︎