{"id":101113,"date":"2016-07-13T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101113"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:16:19","slug":"nyt-for-whites-sensing-decline-donald-trump-unleashes-words-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101113","title":{"rendered":"NYT: For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE JULY 13, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nIn making the explicit assertion of white identity and grievance more widespread, Mr. Trump has galvanized the otherwise marginal world of avowed white nationalists and self-described \u201crace realists.\u201d They hail him as a fellow traveler who has driven millions of white Americans toward an intuitive embrace of their ideals: that race should matter as much to white people as it does to everyone else. He has freed Americans, those activists say, to say what they really believe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussion that white Americans never want to have is this question of identity \u2014 who are we?\u201d said Richard Spencer, 38, a writer and activist whose Montana-based nonprofit is dedicated to \u201cthe heritage, identity and future of people of European descent\u201d in the United States. \u201cHe is bringing identity politics for white people into the public sphere in a way no one has.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Mr. Buchanan\u2019s 1992 and 1996 campaigns were dismissed as a political and intellectual dead end for Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Look, we\u2019re the white party,\u2019\u201d Mr. Buchanan said in an interview from his Virginia home, recalling his attacks on multiculturalism and non-European immigration. \u201c\u2018If this continues, we\u2019re going the way of the Whigs.\u2019 Everyone said, \u2018That\u2019s a terrible thing to say.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Buchanan was campaigning against a backdrop of overwhelming white political and cultural dominance in America. But in the years that followed, the number of immigrants living in the United States illegally would double and then triple, before leveling off under the Obama administration around 11 million. Deindustrialization, driven in part by global trade, would devastate the economic fortunes of white men accustomed to making a decent living without a college degree…<\/p>\n

Mr. Spencer, a popular figure in the white nationalist world, said he did not believe that Mr. Trump subscribed to his entire worldview. But he was struck that Mr. Trump seemed to understand and echo many of his group\u2019s ideas intuitively, and take them to a broader audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he has thought through this issue in a way that I and a number of people have,\u201d Mr. Spencer said. \u201cI think he is reacting to the feeling that he has lost his country.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Mr. Taylor, who has written that blacks \u201cleft entirely to their own devices\u201d are incapable of civilization, and whose magazine, American Renaissance, once published an essay arguing that blacks were genetically more prone to crime, wrote on his blog that Mr. Trump had handled the attacks on him \u201cin the nicest way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like others in his world, Mr. Taylor does not know if Mr. Trump agrees with him on everything. In an interview, he suggested that it did not really matter, and that Mr. Trump was expressing the discomfort many white people felt about other races.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinary white people don\u2019t want the neighborhood to turn Mexican,\u201d Mr. Taylor said, adding, \u201cThey just realize that large numbers of Mexicans will change the neighborhood in ways they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE JULY 13, 2016: In making the explicit assertion of white identity and grievance more widespread, Mr. Trump has galvanized the otherwise marginal world of avowed white nationalists and self-described \u201crace realists.\u201d They hail him as a fellow … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127936,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101113\/revisions\/127936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}