{"id":78247,"date":"2015-11-01T05:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78247"},"modified":"2015-11-01T05:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:48:57","slug":"white-nationalists-descend-on-d-c-for-national-policy-institute-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78247","title":{"rendered":"WHITE NATIONALISTS DESCEND ON D.C. FOR NATIONAL POLICY INSTITUTE CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Burghart writes Oct. 23, 2015<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Just blocks away from the White House, North American and European white nationalists of various stripes are scheduled to convene at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC on October 25 to 27 for the 2013 Leadership Conference of the racist \u201cthink-tank,\u201d The National Policy Institute.<\/p>\n

Fresh off a recent visit to Europe where he spoke again at a meeting of the Traditional Britain Group on October 19, National Policy Institute director Richard Spencer claims the event \u201cwill explore the future of identity for European peoples around the world.\u201d There is very little new, however, to Spencer\u2019s calls for \u201cpeaceful ethnic cleansing\u201d to create a white homeland in North America. IREHR takes a look at Spencer and the National Policy Institute.<\/p>\n

University-educated and well-to-do, Richard Spencer is part of a new generation of leaders trying to re-shape the image of white nationalism.<\/p>\n

After obtaining a bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of Virginia and a master\u2019s degree the University of Chicago, he was a doctoral student at Duke University before \u201cdropping out to pursue a life of thought-crime,\u201d according to Spencer.
\nLike several of his older white nationalist movement mentors, Spencer began his political activity in mainstream conservative circles. He worked as an assistant editor at Pat Buchanan\u2019s The American Conservative magazine, then became executive editor of Taki\u2019s Magazine (the publication of Buchanan\u2019s co-founder in The American Conservative). But Spencer kept marching to the white side.<\/p>\n

In November 2008 he spoke about Nietzsche at Paul Gottfried\u2019s H.L. Mencken Club event. By early 2009, Spencer could no longer hold back his fixation on \u201ccontemporary white consciousness.\u201d In a 29 May 2009 TakiMag piece entitled \u201cWhite Like Me\u201d Spencer opined, \u201cIn our increasingly globalized world (it\u2019s not just a clich\u00e9), race hasn\u2019t been obscured or overcome, as many had hoped, but heightened and magnified\u2014and contemporary white consciousness, if we\u2019re to use this term, is so complicated and bizarre (more on that below) that no serious cultural publication should refrain from discussing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

By year\u2019s end, Spencer left the semi-respectability of the paleo-conservatives for good, when he announced that he was leaving TakiMag to start AlternativeRight.com, \u201can online magazine of radical traditionalism.\u201d Under the financial umbrella of British expatriate Peter Brimelow\u2019s white nationalist VDARE foundation, Alternative Right took to repackaging old white nationalist ideas for a new generation.<\/p>\n

Launched March 1, 2010 with a professional-looking design and a long list of columnists, Alternative Right quickly became a big success in white nationalist circles. As one activist wrote, \u201cI have been glued to the same website for hours today: Richard Spencer\u2019s new webzine Alternative Right \u2026 I hope that Alternative Right will attract the brightest young conservatives and libertarians and expose them to far broader intellectual horizons, including race realism, White Nationalism, the European New Right, the Conservative Revolution, Traditionalism, neo-paganism, agrarianism, Third Positionism, anti-feminism, and right-wing anti-capitalists, ecologists, bioregionalists, and small-is-beautiful types.\u201d<\/p>\n

The popularity of the website made Spencer a rising star in the movement. When Louis Andrews, the chairman of both a white nationalist think-tank and a small publishing house took ill in 2011, Spencer was tapped to take over both operations. Spencer moved both projects to Whitefish, Montana where he lives in a $3 million home.<\/p>\n

To Washington Summit Publishers, Spencer brought in new works like Guillaume Faye\u2019s Why We Fight: Manifesto of Resistance and Sea Changes by Derek Turner to sell alongside classic racist publications, like Francis Parker Yockey\u2019s Imperium, to Fascism Viewed From The Right by Julias Evola, to Madison Grant\u2019s The Passing of the Great Race. Several of the new titles in the WSP catalogue come from the Abergele-based Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group. The company is run by another speaker at the Traditional Britain conference, Alex Kurtagic. Spencer and Kurtagic worked closely together on Alternative Right, and the two have shared the platform on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Washington Summit Publishers gave Spencer another revenue stream, but credibility was to be had from the think-tank, the National Policy Institute. Founded in 2005 by William Regnery II, a member of a wealthy conservative publishing family, and influential white nationalist figure Sam Francis, the National Policy Institute goal was \u201cto elevate the consciousness of whites, ensure our biological and cultural continuity, and protect our civil rights.\u201d It published several so-called studies, including: \u201cThe State of White America \u2013 2007,\u201d\u201cThe Costs and Benefits of Mass Deportation,\u201d \u201cConservatives and Race,\u201d \u201cThe Wealth and IQ of Nations,\u201d and \u201cUhuru for South Africa.\u201d Before moving to Montana, it was located in Augusta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

Spencer\u2019s first big move as executive director of the National Policy Institute was to hold a splashy conference in Washington D.C entitled \u201cTowards a New Nationalism: Immigration and the Future of Western Nations.\u201d He kicked off the conference with a direct invocation of Enoch Powell\u2019s infamous Rivers of Blood speech. Using video of recent riots in England with tape of Powell\u2019s 1968 speech, Spencer, discussed the catastrophe that Latin, Asian and African immigrants have brought the white race. Other speakers at the event included white nationalist stalwarts like Council of Conservative Citizens leader Sam Dickson and Jared Taylor of American Renaissance. At the conference, the National Policy Institute also published a pamphlet by Spencer entitled \u201cThe Majority Strategy \u2013 the Essential Argument \u2013 Why the GOP Must Win White America.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the re-election of President Obama, many white nationalists gave up their hopes that Republicans would adopt their \u201cWhite America\u201d strategy. Some, like Spencer, gave up on the idea that they could win back America altogether and retreated towards enclave-style white nationalism.<\/p>\n

At the spring 2013 conference of the other white nationalist think-tank, American Renaissance, Spencer took to the podium to advocate for \u201cthe creation of a White Ethno-State on the North American continent.\u201d He told the small crowd on hand in Tennessee that \u201cWe need an ethno-state so that our people can \u2018come home again,\u2019 can live amongst family\u2014to put it banally, so that they can feel safe and secure.\u201d To create a white homeland, Spencer argued for peaceful ethnic cleansing to solve the problem. \u201cToday, in the public imagination, \u2018ethnic-cleansing\u2019 has been associated with civil war and mass murder (understandably so). But this need not be the case. 1919 is a real example of successful ethnic redistribution\u2014done by fiat, we should remember, but done peacefully.\u201d He elaborated on his dream, \u201cIt is perfectly feasible for a white state to be established on the North American continent. Action is the easy part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Spencer\u2019s move to Montana, other white nationalists have taken up the call to move to the Western United States. For instance, a Canadian white nationalist recently started purchasing land in an effort to take over the small rural town of Leith, North Dakota (population 16) to turn it into a racist stronghold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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