The
ever-astute Pat Buchanan knows how the trends are flowing:
You’ve
written much about your worries about how demographic changes will negatively
affect the nation. What do you think is the political effect that will come
from this? We are currently seeing the rise of the alt right, left-wing
violence…
If you see more of the cause, you will see more of the effect. How dumb can these people be. Take a look at what’s happening in Europe. You have secessionist movements in more than half a dozen countries. You’ve got nationalism across Europe, you’ve got ethno-nationalism, you’ve got pro-Russian governments rising, autocracy is more attractive to people.
People got to take a look. This isn’t because a couple of guys have been preaching something for a few years. We’ve been predicting it. It’s the events that matter. They decide things. When we ran with these issues in the 90s, you had tremendous support, but the thing people said was what we’re doing right now isn’t that bad so let’s stick with this.
If you don’t address the causes you will get the same results, and I don’t understand people who don’t realize that.
If you see more of the cause, you will see more of the effect. How dumb can these people be. Take a look at what’s happening in Europe. You have secessionist movements in more than half a dozen countries. You’ve got nationalism across Europe, you’ve got ethno-nationalism, you’ve got pro-Russian governments rising, autocracy is more attractive to people.
People got to take a look. This isn’t because a couple of guys have been preaching something for a few years. We’ve been predicting it. It’s the events that matter. They decide things. When we ran with these issues in the 90s, you had tremendous support, but the thing people said was what we’re doing right now isn’t that bad so let’s stick with this.
If you don’t address the causes you will get the same results, and I don’t understand people who don’t realize that.
This is precisely why I have been
pointing out that the continued rise of the Alt-Right to ascendance is not
merely likely, it is inevitable. Mainstream conservatism not only
has no answers for the problems caused by demographic changes, it is part
of the problem.
I can't stress this enough: civic nationalism has failed in the USA. The second immigrant wave destroyed the political foundations of the state, and now the third immigrant wave has destroyed even the semblance of a nation. It's not even remotely possible to dispute this any longer; those who continue to try will only sacrifice their own credibility and become increasingly irrelevant.
As I mentioned to a friend yesterday, my observations tend to be on the early side of the trends. If we were to compare this to the global financial crisis, we're probably at around 2003. Right now, people can see the equivalent of the rise in housing prices, but they can't yet grasp its link to the global financial system. In the same way, people can see the tens of millions of immigrants, their children, and grandchildren, but they can't yet grasp their link to the dissolution of the nation-state.
But they will. They absolutely will in time.
I can't stress this enough: civic nationalism has failed in the USA. The second immigrant wave destroyed the political foundations of the state, and now the third immigrant wave has destroyed even the semblance of a nation. It's not even remotely possible to dispute this any longer; those who continue to try will only sacrifice their own credibility and become increasingly irrelevant.
As I mentioned to a friend yesterday, my observations tend to be on the early side of the trends. If we were to compare this to the global financial crisis, we're probably at around 2003. Right now, people can see the equivalent of the rise in housing prices, but they can't yet grasp its link to the global financial system. In the same way, people can see the tens of millions of immigrants, their children, and grandchildren, but they can't yet grasp their link to the dissolution of the nation-state.
But they will. They absolutely will in time.
