Steve Sailer writes: From the restored Twitter account of the leftist who assaulted a presidential candidate yesterday, a self-promotion of today’s CNN piece about him:
Thomas DiMassimo, 22, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic
He sat down Sunday with CNN to talk about what he did and why
(CNN)When Thomas DiMassimo tried to rush Donald Trump’s stage in Ohio over the weekend, he had a clear goal in mind.
He wanted to send a message.
“I was thinking that I could get up on stage and take his podium away from him and take his mic away from him and send a message to all people out in the country who wouldn’t consider themselves racist, who wouldn’t consider themselves approving of what type of violence Donald Trump is allowing in his rallies, and send them a message that we can be strong, that we can find our strength and we can stand up against Donald Trump and against this new wave he’s ushering in of truly just violent white supremacist ideas,” DiMassimo told CNN.
But DiMassimo, 22, didn’t make it to the podium.
He was quickly blocked by Secret Service officers, and members of Trump’s security detail rushed to cover him. After a few moments, the GOP front-runner, who was visibly startled, gave a thumbs-up and thanked the cheering crowd for warning him.
DiMassimo, 22, of Fairborn, Ohio, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic. He sat down with CNN on Sunday to talk about what he did and why.
“I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully, and he is nothing more than that. He is somebody who is just saying a lot of bold things, he’s making bold claims. But I can see right through that and I can see that he’s truly just a coward. And he’s opportunistic and he’s willing to destroy this country for power for himself,” DiMassimo said.
When asked whether he’d planned on attacking Trump if he’d been able to reach him, DiMassimo said he did not.
“No, not at all. There would have been no point. Donald Trump is 6 foot 3. I’m 5 foot 9 maybe.
DiMassimo is listed on his booking form at 210 pounds and was headed for Trump at a pretty high rate of speed. His younger brother is a college football linebacker and their father played college football.
He’s a giant man surrounded by thousands of followers, 12 Secret Service and a former Ohio State offensive lineman. That would have accomplished nothing.”
The plan to “take his podium away from him” means in effect to either impact a 69 year old man hard enough to knock him away from his podium or, less likely, to wrestle him for it. The chance for doing major violence to an aged candidate would be very high.
From the Daily Mail, photos of the assailant trampling upon a U.S. flag at an anti-white rally last year:
Commenter Forbes writes:
In sports television broadcasting, the producers make a point of not televising spectators who run on the field of play disrupting the event–so as to discourage such conduct. In some places (NYC) it is a misdemeanor–not merely a ticket-earned violation. The producers wouldn’t even think of giving the miscreant the time of day with an interview to allow airing of the miscreant’s perspective.
With news media having adopted the sports-entertainment model of reporting, you think they’d follow sports media protocol discouraging disruptions–but you’d be wrong. Putative ‘news’ media prefers to be a participant in politics and national affairs, so they encourage disruptive behavior.
And yet media talking heads are the chief complainants about political discourse–while fanning the flames with gasoline. Civil behavior and responsible journalism are a thing of the past (if ever they were). The inmates are running the asylum.
Awake Goy says: “I just can’t believe how dishonest CNN has been lately. They’re currently airing a friendly interview with that guy who tried to attack Trump yesterday. Sympathetic. It makes me feel crazy. I do understand “being triggered” now. The news is worse than soviet propaganda now and as a person who loves truth, it just makes me so mad.”
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* I was there tonight at Trump’s rally. Unbelievable shit show from the college protesters! Started fights with supporters, security, and cops. Completely out of control. Chicago PD had barely effective presence in the arena and led the crowd out straight into a gauntlet of screaming protestors outside. Blocked the route back to the train station and redirected everyone on a detour that went beyond the barricades. Total incompetence.
* Re Chicago: I think this is good. It’s estimated that for Trump to win at least two-thirds of White Americans must vote. This is a tall order. Inspirational rhetoric will not be enough. American Whites will need vivid and totally realistic images of a non-White future.
* A few points:
-why should Trump disavow hard right groups when his opponents refuse to disavow violent, anti-democratic protestors for ruining his campaign rallies?
– even the left-leaning BBC has classified Trump as a moderate on foreign policy, so there is little evidence to suggest he will drag the US into unnecessary conflicts
-Trump once used the phrase “rapists and murderers” in relation to Mexican immigrants, he doesn’t make a regular habit of it
-Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the US, not a complete shut down, and he does have a small but significant number of Muslim supporters
-it is perfectly normal for a first world country to have a border wall with a non-first world country like Mexico, what is unusual is why the US hasn’t built one already
-Trump offers tariffs and immigration cut-backs which he argues will help increase wages and job opportunities for working class Americans, and his tougher border security proposals will reduce the amount of illegal drugs circulating in lower class neighbourhoods
-for a Republican candidate, Trump has a wide range of supporters including Blacks, Hispanics, Indians, and some LGBT people – if he is so racist and reactionary, why are these people supporting him?
* There’s two main demographics of Muslim students I know from personal experience. One is the kids that get sent to public school, who tend to be more of Indian heritage rather than Arab. Lot of the girls still wear the hijab, but they’re very well assimilated, mix freely with others, and are pretty much normal people. They’re a lot like the Asian kids, if you want to compare them to another group. Tend to be quiet and studious. The girls especially though seem to follow along with trendy student progressivism, which is why they’d participate in a rally like this.
The other kinds are the ones who go to Islamic schools. Most non-Muslims never meet them (I haven’t) and thus don’t really even know they exist. I have a Muslim Indian friend though (he’s basically an atheist) who told me about some of the ones he knew who went to Islamic school, and they’re the ones who turn out to be hardcore Muslims who only associate with other Muslims and despise the rest of American people and culture.
Part of the reason Trump’s statements, along with any other anti-Islamic statements, strike so many young people as offensive and unjustified is that they’ve never met any Muslims who came out of an Islamic education. All the ones they’ve known are the public school Muslims, most of whom are just normal people.
Thus they have an impression that 99% of the Muslim world is made up of people who don’t take their religion seriously, like the ones they’ve met at school, and that the evil terrorists are just the exceptions.
The single best thing we could do in this country would be to shut down all Islamic schools here “until we know what the Hell is going on.” If that’s ruled unconstitutional by the First Amendment, then shut down all funding for them from Saudi Arabia and other overseas patrons. Sending Muslim kids to public schools when they’re such a small minority at present makes most of them socialize with non-Muslims and assimilate nicely.
The only problem then is the same leftist indoctrination you have going on with everyone else.
* Trump was pretty quick on his feet both rhetorically and physically for a guy pushing 70.
Notice his message after the bum rush:
* “Thank you for the warning….” Acknowledges the crowd, bringing them to his side.
* “Much easier if the cops handle it, don’t we agree…” A response to the “Trump beats up hippies” story line, plus the “don’t we agree” which pushes the crowd to actually agree with him.
* “What a great job” Acknowledges the cops, which plays well with the crowd.
* “And to think I had such an easy life, what do I need this for” Addresses the rich guy story line, plus shifts it to his quasi-humble assertion that he’s just returning something to the nation where he gained great wealth.
And all done with a sort of wise-guy New Yorker affect.
He’s been at this sort of thing a long time and he’s an instinctive salesman. I can’t think of any other candidate this cycle who could have extemporaneously created as good of a response.
Trump’s no conservative, doesn’t have much of an intellectual framework to guide his beliefs, and would sell out any of his current positions to gain some sort of “deal”, but, dammit, he keeps on putting on a class for how to deal with the anti-free-speech left.
* What is a conservative? The common denominator seems to be globalism, belligerent Zionist foreign policy and all for the investor class.
I would say a guy who’s even open to deal-making, let alone actually making deals, is infinitely preferable to every other candidate and politician who who dares not deviate from his overlords. This is why Trump is being barraged with calumnious attacks like no other person in history.
Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump Is to Blame for Violence at His Rallies
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“When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Mr. Cruz said. “And today is unlikely to be the last such instance.”
Hillary Clinton on Trump Rallies: ‘That’s Political Arson’
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“The ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it’s dangerous… “If you play with matches, you’re going to start a fire you can’t control. That’s not leadership. That’s political arson.”
* We don’t make people our national leader just because they are good at punching political opponents in the face, the way they do in Canada.
* The guy who threatened in his Twitter account to assault (or kill) Trump, and then went and attempted it, is now out on bail and back to tweeting at the same account: https://twitter.com/Younglionking7 Obviously Twitter is another “safe space”.
How very much like Weimar Germany and Republican Spain things are going. In both cases, authorities were shamelessly lenient with the street fighters and militants they saw as their own guys, whether right-wing or left-wing.
* From what I can tell here in CA, children of Muslim immigrants are the most anti-white group in America. They either go anti-white Muslim supremacist with the veils and everything, or else anti-white far-left identify group politics. The selective immigration of mostly higher IQ people from Muslim countries like Iran, Pakistan and Muslims parts of India means the immigrants themselves are generally well behaved, but their IQ-regressed kids go middle class radical.
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* Sailer: I’d hardly be surprised if Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to run. They had a phone conversation about a month before Trump announced his candidacy. Bill Clinton probably likes Trump on a golf buddy level more than he likes Jeb or Rubio or Walker or whomever, so why wouldn’t he go along with Trump’s usual egotism and tell him he’s better than the other Republicans.
* One thing that I don’t often see mentioned is one obvious similarity between Clinton and Trump: as different as they are in so many ways, they are perhaps the greatest natural politicians of our era.
* I wonder where Ben Shapiro and Mike Levin will be on this? They have endlessly attacked Trump for not being a true conservative or not supporting the Constitution and they are Cruz supporters. Of course Shapiro has cried about his boorish behavior. My guess is their neoconism won’t let them denounce Cruz and they will pretend it is already forgotten.
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What is going to happen, Luke!? Things are so crazy. I really cannot stand the media blaming black street violence on Trump’s “incendiary rhetoric.”
A friend told me he was buying $5,000 in ammunition as an investment because when things go south, ammunition will be the new currency.
Buy guns. Buy lots of ammunition. Buy emergency medical supplies. Have enough food and water to last you and your family at least a month. Band together with other gun owners nearby. Read survivalist literature.
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According to a recent poll, 61% of Israelis view Trump positively. But not the hardcore lefties like this guy.
Larry Derfner writes: In the 31 years I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve never voted in a U.S. election – mainly because I have a problem voting in a country where I don’t live anymore, especially when the one I do live in makes such a big issue of telling outsiders to stay out of its business. Also, I would be voting in California, which is by now so solidly Democratic that my vote would just be sending coals to Newcastle.
But if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination as expected, I’m going to vote in the November election. Because he is in an entirely different category from any Republican leader I ever opposed, including Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush. No need to explain why; his story is being written every day, and it’s all too unmistakably clear.
But I want to point out a few things about Trump, any one of which would have hobbled or destroyed the candidacy of a normal American politician, but which have been swallowed up and forgotten in the daily cascade of new moral atrocities he produces.
1. The news is that Trump got the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and that he won’t renounce it. What’s forgotten is that his father, Fred Trump, the formative influence in his life, his mentor and benefactor, was arrested at age 21 during a KKK brawl with New York police. The roots of the younger Trump’s racism run very deep.
2. In the 1970s, by which time Trump had taken over his father’s New York real estate business, the Justice Department sued his company for refusing to rent to black tenants. Despite an out-of-court agreement to end the practice, three years later, the Justice Department charged the Trump Organization with continuing its exclusionary policy: “[R]acially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity,” the Justice Department declared.
3. Before running for president, Trump’s political renown came mainly from his leading role in the “birther” movement – the bunch that deny Obama’s right to be president because they claim he wasn’t born in America, but in Kenya. The movement is built on white racism, Islamophobia and ultra-nationalism, all staples of Trump’s appeal.
4. Last July, when Republican Senator John McCain slammed him for “firing up the crazies” in the party, Trump belittled McCain for having been a POW during the Vietnam War. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump told an Iowa audience. Trump didn’t only denigrate McCain with that remark – he denigrated all POWs. Trump himself ducked the Vietnam War with a series of college and medical deferments, which hadn’t stopped him from being a self-described “star athlete” in high school. This is the individual who’s going to “make America great again,” whose fanatical supporters chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” at his rallies.
There’s never been an American presidential candidate remotely like him. And the worse he is, the better he does.
So this year’s U.S. election will be to other U.S. elections like World War II was to other wars – truly a battle of good vs. evil, a holy war, a war for survival. And I believe it’s not enough to beat Trump – his candidacy and everything it stands for has to be utterly destroyed, obliterated, left in smoking ruins. America must violently cast him out. It must write in the sky, “This is not us.”
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* In addition to being a tireless worker with abundant energy, Trump appears to have a long memory. Should he win the White House, its a safe bet that he would bring the law and order policies of former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani to a national level.
Speaking of law and order, this does remind one of 1968, when far leftists disrupted the Democratic Convention in Chicago. One has to ask here, does BLM and Soros funded groups think that they are actually persuading independent/moderate voters into supporting their cause, OR are they rather driving more and more voters….to support Trump at the ballot box? If anything, like the Mitt Romney criticism, BLM/protesting/coalition of fringes nuttery may just have the opposite effect and drive more and more independent voters into fully supporting Trump’s candidacy. This is why I’ve said before that Trump, if he is the GOP nominee in November, should carry ca. 70% of the total white vote; BLM/overall fringe nuttery is helping to make this a reality.
Trump has publicly run on a law and order platform. This weekend is making his case that voters should seriously consider the truthiness of his words.
* I know Trump has a conceal carry permit, I think it would have made a great Instagram if he had pulled that pistol out, and stood there like Steve McGarrett in the old Hawaii 5-O shows. I’m not saying he should have shot him, but hey, I am not saying he should not have shot him either.
* PC is no longer “fringe”. It is, in fact, the new bourgeois morality. It must be embraced by all ‘right-thinking’ educated persons, from senators and CEOs on down to ordinary accountants and adjunct professors. To repudiate it publicly is to invite total ostracism–if not legal sanction.
* When a candidate rents a hall in which to speak and when private citizens have taken the time and trouble to attend and hear what this speaker has to say, is their right to hear him rather than some disruptive protester protected by some variety of right to peaceable assembly?
If we pay to attend a professional basketball game and some clown runs out on the court dribbling his own ball and starts shooting baskets, do we tolerate his behavior in the name of “freedom of expression” or are we not delighted when security tackles the idiot?
If we are attending a theater and someone in the audience disrupts the performance by loudly giving vent to his personal views on the world, do we good-naturedly tolerate the interruption and listen closely to the text of what he is saying in order to assess its merits relative to the lines of the actors whom we came to hear?
If we are on a jet airplane 35,000 feet in the air and some person gets out of their seat and belligerently rants about some private grievance do we allow them to continue undisturbed, acknowledging their right to freedom of expression or are we not grateful when the flight attendants shut him down (and hopefully sedate him)?
Please help me out here people.
What is the general Law which you, as Chief Justice, would invoke that would justify suppressing the disruptive behavior of the offending individual in all these cases?
* I can remember a time when the GOP stood for more than just cutting taxes and killing our little brown brothers. It’s been a while, though.
I don’t want to invade the world; I don’t want to invite the world, and I don’t want to be in hock to the world.
Is Libya better off today than it was under Cathafi? Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam? (Some people, sure.)
Is America better off for having a substantial Somali community in Minnesota? If so, how?
People talk about free trade and comparative advantage and forget that the United States isn’t just some other country—-it’s the single largest market in the world. Why not experiment some with tariffs to move production back in country?
Do we benefit from having the Chinese manufacture our dog food? Chips for our missiles?
Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban might be fine gentlemen on the whole but I somehow suspect that they are a wee bit more concerned about Israel than the average American is.
* The Trump administration should focus on humiliating and destroying left-wing idiocy (and its followers). He should start a relocation program aimed at dumping millions of blacks and immigrants from red states into nice, white democrat areas – then denounce them for racism when they flee or protest. The only way to destroy the mental illness of the left is to publicly humiliate its followers by giving them what they profess. Progressivism is a mental illness – a personality defect focused on social advancement by extreme (and almost always hypocritical) virtue signalling. Stop fighting the symptoms and destroy the disease.
* If Trump is successful it will be a masterstroke. He will have simultaneously bested the feminism/black/Latino Democratic coalition while handcuffing the religious conservatives and moneyed elites within his own party at the same time Religious conservatives have held the Republicans hostage for a generation but you can only keep losing for so long. They have no where else to go now. That has been OK with the Republican elite, who does not care whether abortion is legal or not. They only care if their economic interests are served. The irony is that religious conservatives and white liberals now have a way out of the box they have put themselves in. Perhaps they can be passionate about something else for a few decades while we move on to other more interesting things.
* Trump tosses around some pretty inflammatory rhetoric, and the MSM had been running some very inflammatory rhetoric against him. I’m not surprised there are some clashes.
I do wonder to what extent this was orchestrated (or simply exploited) by Trump. This whole election, watching Trump vs the other candidates has been like watching a really good chess player play against a bunch of novices. And this image of protesters (especially young, nonwhite, leftist, educated SJW types) trying to shut Trump down is going to play very well with his natural voters.
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REPORT: Second huge brawl ‘was planned between gang members’ in central Melbourne before police stepped in to separate them.
Victoria police have managed to disperse two rival gangs that planned another mass brawl in Melbourne on Sunday night.
The second brawl which is believed to have been scheduled for 11pm on social media saw Apex and Islander 21 gangs glaring at each other in Federation Square, reported the Herald Sun.
Around 20 police officers standing in between the Sudanese and Islander gang members eventually saw their plans cancelled.
This comes after the two armed rival gangs caused chaos on Saturday night as they fought amongst each other in front of terrified families in Melbourne’s CBD.
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* Steve, it is interesting that you bring up the example of the EU and also of mass immigration, when illustrating the ‘precautionary principle’.
In fact, regarding mass immigration, at least, the EU is the absolute and complete antithesis of the ‘precautionary principle’.
All EU member states are legally bound to uphold the stinky 1951 Geneva Convention on ‘refugees’. EU law takes supremacy over national law. Therefore, the ‘sovereign’ parliaments, assemblies, presidents etc of any EU member state *cannot do a damned thing* to alter the 1951 Convention. They *MUST* enforce it, even if it is against the will of their people, the democratically elected representatives, parliaments, or presidents.
Now, amongst its stinky obligations the stinky 1951 Convention obliges signatories to accept unlimited massive uncontrolled immigration -if- the magic word ‘ASYLUM’ happens to be uttered.
This is not a ‘precautionary principle’. It’s a ‘permissive proviso’.
It’s also the clinching argument of why the British should vote to ‘leave’.
* A related example is Libya. The FT has an editorial this weekend agreeing with Obama that France and Britain should have put troops on the ground after deposing Qatafay and implanted democracy there, and how their failure to do that led to ISIS taking root in Libya and migrants pouring out into Europe. Not much on how they shouldn’t have deposed him in the first place.
* I’m sorry, they are NOT ‘free’ to ignore the 1951 Convention.
The EU CAN and WILL take action against them, involving nasty, bullying, ‘sanctions’ , fines, freeze-outs, embargoes etc. Also many eastern European nations are dependent on central EU funding (Britain is a massive contributor, but that’s another story). This is the real meaning of ‘independence’. If you depend on another man, any man for your sustenance, then you are his slave, effectively.
* Ross [Douthat]’s latest column suggests using party machinations to subvert the will of the voters. I’m wondering when an established pundit will take the leap and suggest scrapping democracy all together.
Although, ironically, an autocratic America might turn restrictionist. After all, there’d be no incentive to import voters.
* President Trump deports all infiltrators, we suffer through all the protests and angst and recriminations and then we vigorously enforce the law and the new “culture on immigration” will become the norm.
The weak link in the plan is that we have to count on President Trump having the backbone to do what is necessary. Surgeons manage to do what is necessary even as they inflict great trauma on the bodies of their patients because they realize that they’re doing good for the patients. We need to all embrace this analogy and apply it to the immigration issue.
* Any country that’s bound by the Geneva refugee treaty would have to withdraw separately from it, regardless of its EU status. Also, all Western European countries are part of the Council of Europe, and therefore under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. This has control over immigration policy and has stopped deportations in many test cases. But anyway, as Wilkey says, the countries’ leaders will do what they please, as Merkel has done by ignoring the EU and opening Germany’s borders to invasion.
* I’d point to how effortlessly the major European powers have pivoted from denouncing Hungary as un-European for controlling its borders to denouncing Greece because it doesn’t. Previously, the wave of migrants was this Unstoppable Force, this 1000-foot wave, which will just overwhelm or route around any puny obstacles a Hungary might place in its way and all the European masses could do was cower before the Will of the Desperate. Now, suddenly, you see the awesome efficiency of the modern European state effortlessly chopping the wave into little rivulets, turning into stagnant puddles in backwater European states, with no ability to force their way into Germany.
Passing healthcare reform was politically hard ’cause it took decades and faced deeply entrenched opposition. Abolishing the ExIm bank is politically hard. Policies which are shown to be easily reversible within a matter of *months* don’t qualify as politically hard at all. Hillary is dragged to the left on immigration by liberal-White-Power Bernie Sanders, not by fear of implicitly dissing Jorge Ramos.
* Political experiments have uncertain outcomes, and someone has to be first to try them. But the result of mass non-white immigration was obvious before it ever started. Even the most uneducated Englishman in 1950 could have predicted that his country would be changed irreparably by making it ten per cent African or Asian.
The fact is that we are ruled by people who hate and despise us – there is no other way of putting it. To take people’s country from them as Merkel and Blair have done is the most poisonously evil thing imaginable. They’re spitting on the memory of people who defended us from Saracen and Hun invasions in the past, and they’re condemning us permanently to the status of peoples like the Kurds, forever living as outsiders in countries ruled by other races and hoping our rulers will be merciful to us.
* If we restrict immigration or in any way acknowledge group differences then inevitably Hitler will be resurrected and the 4th Reich will plunge the world into eternal night!
* The West has simply gone batshit crazy on immigration….
That’s just one of the things the West has gone “batshit crazy” over. The West cannot be long for this world.
Some of the others include:
Financialization, creating globally-parasitic institutions “To Big To Fail” (i.e., to kill the parasite is to kill the host).
Civil rights, privileging minorities so that they no longer need to make any effort to fit into the majority society (for, if they did so need, that would be evidence of bigotry), while bringing about the incurable self-debasement of white Europeans, a situation in which all parties can only succeed by failing.
Nationalism, leading to two World Wars and innumerable smaller conflicts and revolutions (If you don’t control the Nation State you don’t control your life; if you don’t control the neighboring Nation State you don’t control yours, ad infinitum).
Welfare statism, bankrupting all these Nations one after the other.
Celebrity, leading to the psychotic belief that if you aren’t famous (or notorious) you don’t actually exist.
All of these, and others, are nothing but luxuries that only wealthy cultures can afford, and spoiled cultures demand. As most of them, while being narcotically popular (for being morally self-satisfying), and therefore irreversible, are unproductive, they will slowly bleed these cultures dry.
* For a white South African such as myself this is all so déjà vu. We always assumed the Americans and Europeans knew that they were screwing us, i.e. acting in bad faith. But now I’m beginning to think they really believed all the BS they unloaded on us. That we were the guinea pigs to see how this wonderful multicultural project, where whites are the minority, would work out. Somehow they forgot to register how the experiment turned out, before embarking on that same disastrous road. But then again, they never listened to us in the past, so why should they listen to us now. Since colonial times they always knew everything better.
* Bringing democracy to the benighted Muslims we’ve just bombed and forcibly regime-changed. That stuff *never* gets old!
* South Carolina and Mississippi had white minorities for over a century. Minority status isn’t all that bad if you maintain control. (You don’t even have to work!)
South Africans dug their own graves when they allowed black Africans to cross the line in the sand to come in and make their beds. The western Cape could have made a lovely lily-white country, but no, you had to throw it away.
* Black population growth under Apartheid was not a function of immigration (the borders were tightly controlled by the military), but due to free health care, proper nutrition, clean water, missionary activity, law and order, and work opportunities, all provided by whites. Mass immigration only started once the ANC took over. Its main purpose was to provide cheap labor for the industries and mines who were benefactors of the ANC, and to render the whites politically irrelevant. South Africans “dug their own graves” by developing the black population. Of course since most whites were Christians, it was kinda the obvious and right thing to do. I have yet to find a pastor that can explain that contradiction to me.
* There were state elections in three German states today. AfD made massive gains, at about 12,5% in Rheinland-Pfalz, at almost 15% in Baden-Württemberg (where I voted for them), and almost 25% in Sachsen-Anhalt (in the former GDR) where it’s the 2nd strongest party after the Christian Democrats. Elite reaction has been predictable, totally along antifa lines, i.e. above all we need to demonize and exclude the evil right-wingers. Probably won’t change much (though it will be difficult to form a government at least in Sachsen-Anhalt) in the near run…will be interesting how things work out until 2017.
* Donald Trump is firmly in the mainstream of American historical policy. Strong military with limited intervention? Ike. Protectionist tariffs? Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln through FDR. Affirmative Action? Nixon to Present. Medicare-Social Security? FDR to Present.
The man spent his life in NYC being both a big time real estate developer and major celebrity who poked fun at himself. He is as mainstream as it gets. Nor can someone maintain public life in both spheres for over thirty years without his flaws and virtues being well known. Trump is pretty socially liberal and uncaring about much beyond law and order, nationalism, protectionism, and border control. That’s enough for me.
He is not a True Con like Cruz, who also subscribes to BLM aka “Grovel Whitey before your masters.” He is favor of AA, which hurts me as a Straight White male, but the only candidate who has even a chance of limiting both H1 Bs and illegal/legal mass Third World immigration which hurts me more.
Other than the border and tariffs Trump will be decidedly non revolutionary. That suits me just fine.
* Why is nationalism on that list? There was a severe problem with out-of-control nationalism in 1930s Germany, but that is long gone. No western nation is threatened by the nationalism of another nation. In fact we need some sense of nationalism to return if our societies are to avoid further degradation.
As James Goldsmith put it in the 1990s:
Indeed, nations need new blood and new ideas. But they can only absorb a limited amount at a time. They cannot allow themselves to be overwhelmed by immigration otherwise they will lose their identity and cease to be nations. Newcomers who are welcomed into a nation should want to honour and respect the customs of their new home. They must not step on shore or over the border and reject the national culture. If they do, the inevitable results are hostility, intolerance and conflict.
I’ve been re-reading some of Goldsmith’s stuff (and watching his interview with Charlie Rose on YouTube). Truly a Cassandra whose wisdom could not get the attention it deserved at the time. He had it right on trade, financialization, immigration — pretty much all the points you mentioned.
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