Over the past year, I’ve emailed MSM journalists I know that they should write or assign profiles of Steve Sailer because of his importance to this election. None of them even bothered to reply to my suggestion.
From the comments section at Steve Sailer Nov. 9:
* I’ve been on Twitter for the last couple of days, but I just wanted to come home here to say congrats and thanks to Steve. iSteve has been my red pill. I thank you. Your country thanks you.
* The Sailer strategy has been talked about on 538 all night. You called this one Steve. Kudos. Your blog has been my red pill too.
* This election is lost for Clinton and hopefully gives rise to an alt-left with the realization of how little the black vote matters and how chasing after high black turnout is a highly damaging to overall strategy. The big idea behind an alt-left should be never pander to blacks on social justice issues, it doesn’t generate black turnout and is extremely provocative to white working class workers who see it as a call to race rioting.
Just stick to offering blacks mortgage subsidies, none of this BLM nonsense. It’s very self destructive to white liberals and globalism.
* If Steve Sailer isn’t recognized as the pr-eminent social analyst of the day, then people have their heads in the sand. I’d expect publishing offers to come from the less reputable publishing homes, and maybe even the semi-marginal ones.
* Three cheers for the Sailer Strategy! You can own it now, Steve. Wallow in it, buddy!
* A very powerful man owes a debt of gratitude to you. He is rumored to be quite loyal. Thank you from all the little people as well.
* Steve, You said it all long ago, though few would listen. We can see clearly now that the entire political class/MSM narrative since 1990 has been a scam to keep reasonable nationalists, and true patriots locked out of both media & politics.
The connection that DJT has with common working men was the key to employing your rust belt strategy. No way could any other GOP candidate connect with plumbers, welders, electricians, assembly line crews and other blue collar folks quite like Trump. He had the platform and his concern for his fellow citizens’ welfare was authentic. Far more so than the bogus “I feel your pain” charade of the first Clinton.
This is by far the most earth shattering political event of my life, and I can even remember Reagan1980. Will need to sleep on this to let it sink it.
* Who would have thought Moore would capture Trumpmania best?
Moore is obviously anti-Trump but he gets the political psychology of what’s going on.
* I imagine this is one of the proudest moments of your life, Steve. You inspired Coulter, who inspired Trump to use this strategy, and with it he won the biggest political prize on earth.
* Brokaw, et. al on NBC currently talking about how the white vote was always there in the Rust Belt but seemed like it wasn’t because Romney couldn’t get them to the voting booth.
If Steve quits blogging, who will the MSM be years behind?
* You are a national hero. Keep on keeping. I’ve been reading you for about 6 years now. I’ve lost several groups of friends for revealing that I read you. It’s crazy how much the pundits are astonished by the win and you were right even with the diminishing white %, that it could be a winning strategy 16 years later. If they could of stopped their pearl clutching and righteous indignation for a second, they could of taken this information and won.
* Steve, I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but in most of the photos that you’ve posted of yourself on this blog you look quite glum. After today, I hope you post a photo of yourself with a gigantic ear-to-ear grin and maybe holding a newspaper with the relevant headline.
* Steve, your personality probably tends strongly against self promotion, bragging, I-told-you-so-ism, and etc. Which is great. But, in this case, please understand, you cannot post too many times and/or too many places that you called this back in 2000.
* I predict Steve will be interviewed by multiple high profile media organizations over the next few days. The chin-strokers will want to know more about those crazy alt-right guys, and Steve’s about the most respectable of them. They’re probably rifling through their rolodexes right now.
Which will be awesome for his traffic, but batten down the hatches for trolls. Maybe Ron Unz can hire a flunky to moderate posts for Steve.
As long as it’s not an illegal alien.
We should have a contest for guessing what the NYT article lede will be. “The Fascist Roots of Golf Course Architecture,” maybe.
* Take a bow, Mr. Sailer.
I can’t remember any other blogger who has come close to exerting so much influence, in the fullness of time, through sheer cogency of ideas. That was true before the election results came in, but it has just become far more apparent to those who did not already know. Sailer Gap indeed.
* Trump may or may not know it, but he owes this election to one man: Steve Sailer. Well done sir. I did not think this was possible. Immigration reform in our time.
* If the God-Emperor ascends there will come a time when everyone will say they read Sailer, donated to Sailer, erected a shrine to Sailer before anyone else knew who Sailer was. Steve is about to discover a boatload of new old friends. I’m just putting it out now to all you townies I go back to the first NR articles and the old iSteve website.
* So proud to have been a Steve fan for years now. This is your moment man. I hope you are enjoying it. I predict great new opportunities for you in the near future.
Thanks so much for all you’ve done. And don’t forget to keep up the good work because we’re going to need it!
* If they have the brains to do what’s necessary to cling to whatever credibility they have left, they will invite Steve on. More likely – they won’t be able to get over their bitterness at being revealed to have no clothes. As I write this, Trump is up 244-215 and during commercial breaks NBC is playing a montage of moments they think make Trump look bad, as if anybody voting for him cares.
Steve, I know writing a blog that gets you branded a racist and unfit for polite society is a lucrative gig, but you may want to consider leveraging the Trumpening into a campaign consultancy gig. Maybe you could take the clients that abandon Rick Wilson?
NBC talking about how the “Latino vote showed up” but still stunned it hasn’t been enough. Steve has written here before about people not having a useful set of general statistics mentally at-hand to filter the BS they hear. 63% non-hispanic white share of U.S. population is looking like a pretty useful statistic to know right now.
They also just figured out that “flyover country” is in fact derogatory, and maybe people resent it.
* Both Mr. Trump and the Half Blood Prince have surely heard of you and know your work. I can see some face time with the most powerful man on earth in the near horizon for you.
The Alt Right has selected a President. I never thought I would see the day. My God!
And you’re one of the Alt Right’s top ten sages on Planet Earth, Mr. Sailer. There surely must be a future active role for you.
* …a pro-white strategy isn’t going to garner much crossover.
If anyone got pandered by Trump, it was the nativist, pro-white people. But he is going to do a better thing and demonstrate that one of Steve’s higher ideals, citizenism, is what he represents.
He’s just pulling you guys along.
So maybe it was sort of a modified public/private position Sailer Strategy. Privately, Trump understands that a pro-citizenist policy like, yes, Brazil, is about the only thing that can work on the U.S. today.
Kinda Trojan-horsed that into a somewhat public Sailer Strategy to set the hook.
I’d see him as paying double tribute to Steve, tactical usage of Sailer Strategy in places, but at core a citizenist.
Anyhow, he’s going to be dragging the Overton Window in the other direction for you guys like he did for the libs during the election in forging more of a post-racial America.
You guys aren’t going to like all of it, but you’ll go along. After all, where else do you have to go? But already, look at you guys. Who is complaining about Jews, Blacks, gays, etc, on this blog anymore? A lot of your fears are dissipating already.
Was I right about all this Trump stuff so far (hint: look at my comment thread going back months)? And now I’m finally starting to read all sorts of things now about this historic upset, reshaping the political landscape, yada yada.
* Serious props to Sailer for calling this right a long time ago.
What blows my mind is that Trump won without a serious ground operation.
The skypes just went all in against Trump; will they recover their prior position and get him to wage more neocon wars despite his current foreign policy positions a la GWB?
* I heard this line on NPR too: “Will Muslims and Hispanics feel they have a place in Trump’s America?”
I don’t know. They could go back home. What I was worried about was what place white men like me would have in Hillary’s America.
* The Sailer strategy worked, despite the GOP establishment working against it and millions of Never-Trumpsters not supporting the republican candidate and most GOP politicians actively sabotaging him. The Libertarian candidate this year got over 3 million votes , triple what he got 4 years ago.
Sailer has shown us that one man can change the world. Kudos to Steve.
* Tonight Trump proved that you can talk very bluntly about the issues facing our country and still get away with it. Democratic candidates are used to tossing out red meat to their members and getting away with it. Well Trump did that, too, and he may very well have won the White House.
He’s sent a message to the GOP establishment about issues that worry the white middle class of this country – wage stagnation, immigration, and all the rest. He (and those of us who voted for him) have sent a message loud and clear to the Mitch McConnells, Paul Ryans, Marco Rubios, and Mitt Romneys of the party that cannot be ignored, though they’ve tried to do so time and again. Either they will heed that message this time or they will pay a very stiff price.
* Steve Sailer is the Bill James of political analysis. Even people who despise him should give him that much credit. Sailer should seriously consider writing something analogous to a Baseball Abstract. He’s already done a lot of the major lifting and could focus on expanding somewhat on his best ideas.
* Nice tribute to Sailer’s perceptiveness in an article on the online front page of the Spectator at the moment:
“Back in 2000 the blogger Steve Sailer observed that the Republicans could win with the low-hanging fruit of a white middle-class increasingly alienated by the Democratic Party’s ‘coalition of the fringes’, and he seems to have been proved right.”
I’ve written before in comments here, at the Spectator and Telegraph, and at Taki’s, that Sailer (along with Derbyshire) would have been a natural for regular columns at those places (Spectator and Telegraph, that is, formerly the natural British outlets for traditionalist conservative thought) were it not for the active censorship of traditionalist and nativist views. Their loss has been Taki’s and Unz’s gain.
Somewhat ironically, I can’t comment on it at the Spectator Blogs site because I’m banned from posting there by that same process of suppressing the expression of dissident opinions and the way it enables the individual gatekeepers to impose their own agendas by way of political censorship.
Congratulations to Steve, and to the American people. Like the Brexit vote, another well deserved poke in the eye for all the people who most need a poke in the eye.
* Maybe I’m just in a good mood, but if we can put the breaks on immigration for a bit I’m optimistic that the life of the GOP can be extended indefinitely.
Sure, there are some unfavorable developments. Quite a few states that Bush carried easily such as Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada are now toss ups or blue. And you have to wonder if Florida, Texas, and Arizona will be winnable in the future given current trends. But if the immigration slows down, I think we just might have a chance of absorbing Latinos into the greater population.
Speak frankly, blacks and whites have never really assimilated even after hundreds of years. But intermarriage rates for Hispanics are considerably higher and they aren’t as racially distinct as blacks (and critically a half Hispanic is much more likely to pass for white than a half black). The whiter ones (and the more attractive mestizos) will likely be absorbed into “White America.” Eventually. Best case scenario it would be like the dagos in the 20th century. Again, this is only if we close the border and allow our national identity to settle a bit. Over time, I would bet these Latinos that are going 3 to 1 D will move at least a bit toward the GOP as they become whiter.
If we can’t stem the tide though, then they will maintain a separate identity and we will just have a permanent, growing Latin underclass that will be a public burden and vote solid D in perpetuity.
* Charles Murray gives Steve a shout-out: “When someone has been so strategically right so early, he deserves acknowledgment”
Some other great tweet quotes in that Ed West piece:
“Trump voters are opposed not to identity politics but to identity politics for everyone but them. That’s one important lesson of the night.”
“The thing about playing identity politics is that eventually everyone figures out they should do the same thing.”
* I’ve been reading Sailer for a long time.
He deserves so much more recognition than he gets. He also deserves remuneration.
I have set up a monthly contribution of $20.00 through PayPal.
Everyone here who has the means should do so as well.
You deserve it, Steve!
* Steve has been mentioned approvingly at achgut.com, the online project of German gadfly journalist Henryk Broder, the local Mark Steyn, sort of, the brighter guys (and girls, there are some) of our alt-right know him, too.