vdare--2020-11-18--De Bourbon-Montenegro Arrested for Vote Fraud

Man who tried running for mayor of Hawthorne among 2 charged with voter fraud in L.A. LOCAL NEWS by : KTLA Digital Staff Two men , including one who unsuccessfully attempted to run for mayor in Hawthorne , face a slew of charges after allegedly submitting thousands of unlawful voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people , prosecutors announced Tuesday .
, 53 , and Marcos Raul Arevalo , 34 , are accused of turning in the fraudulent applications between July and October of this year , according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney ’ s news release @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mark Anthony Gonsalves , allegedly submitted more than 8,000 such applications , the release read .
There were only 30,000 votes cast in the Hawthorne mayor ’ s race , so 8,000 fraudulent registrations submitted bespeaks of energy and ambition .
Although perhaps De Bourbon-Montenegro might have called a little too much attention to his scheme .
He is also suspected of falsifying names , addresses and signatures on the nomination papers he submitted in his failed mayoral bid .
The Daily Breeze reported in August that Bourbon-Montenegro fell short of the 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So , not a really big or well-oiled political machine .
My name is Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Galdiano Montenegro .
I am a Ceremonial High Magician & Occult Book Author .
I have been preparing sacred ingredients and writing books for the occult community for the past 30 years .
I am an initiate of the sacred mysteries of Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda/Kimbanda .
I am well-known and celebrated by the International Occult World Community not only as an experienced magician of Afro-Brazilian Ceremonial High Magick , but also acknowledged as an expert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arts , Gnosticism and the magickal folklore traditions of Latin America , Europe and Africa .
So , I ’ m not sure that one can draw too many broadly applicable inferences about vote fraud from Senhor De Bourbon-Montenegro .
He sounds a little idiosyncratic .

From KTLA in Los Angeles:
Man who tried running for mayor of Hawthorne among 2 charged with voter fraud in L.A.
LOCAL NEWS
by: KTLA Digital Staff Posted: Nov 17, 2020 / 10:51 AM PST / Updated: Nov 17, 2020 / 11:08 AM PST Two men, including one who unsuccessfully attempted to run for mayor in Hawthorne, face a slew of charges after allegedly submitting thousands of unlawful voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Carlos Antonio De Bourbon-Montenegro,
That’s quite a name.
53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, are accused of turning in the fraudulent applications between July and October of this year, according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney’s news release. Bourbon-Montenegro, who also goes by Mark Anthony Gonsalves, allegedly submitted more than 8,000 such applications, the release read.
There were only 30,000 votes cast in the Hawthorne mayor’s race, so 8,000 fraudulent registrations submitted bespeaks of energy and ambition. Although perhaps De Bourbon-Montenegro might have called a little too much attention to his scheme.
He is also suspected of falsifying names, addresses and signatures on the nomination papers he submitted in his failed mayoral bid. The Daily Breeze reported in August that Bourbon-Montenegro fell short of the 20 signatures required to get on the ballot.
So, not a really big or well-oiled political machine.
From De Bourbon-Montenegro’s Amazon page:
My name is Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Galdiano Montenegro. I am a Ceremonial High Magician & Occult Book Author. I have been preparing sacred ingredients and writing books for the occult community for the past 30 years. I am an initiate of the sacred mysteries of Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda/Kimbanda. I am well-known and celebrated by the International Occult World Community not only as an experienced magician of Afro-Brazilian Ceremonial High Magick, but also acknowledged as an expert and leading authority of the Occult Black Arts, Gnosticism and the magickal folklore traditions of Latin America, Europe and Africa. I hope you enjoy my occult books.
So, I’m not sure that one can draw too many broadly applicable inferences about vote fraud from Senhor De Bourbon-Montenegro. He sounds a little idiosyncratic.
Maybe Carlos Antonio De Bourbon-Montenegro is a Confederado descended from American slaveowners who went into exile?
His name sounds like a name that the King and Duke in "Huckleberry Finn" would make up to impress the rubes. — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) November 18, 2020
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-17--This Day In VDARE.com History: Donald J. Trump’s Post-Orlando Address On Terrorism, Immigration, and

This Day In VDARE.com History: Donald J. Trump’s Post-Orlando Address On Terrorism, Immigration, and National Security—Definitive VDARE.com Edition!

This speech by Donald J. Trump is one of the reasons he won in 2016 ; Hillary Clinton ( like Joe Biden ) wanted more Muslims .
It also , in the form of the `` travel ban '' represents one of his successes .
Published here on this day in 2016 .
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes : Immigration really is the Third Rail of American politics , not because Americans like it—they don ’ t—but because powerful elite economic and ethnic interests do .
And they react any mention of it with rage and repression .
Thus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Talking About Trump ’ s Speech Actually Hear It ?
And , as Byron York says : Although you wouldn ’ t know it from the Main Stream Media , Trump ’ s June 13 speech was in some ways the most impressive English-language speech on immigration since Enoch Powell in 1968 .
We present it here with our trademark supporting hyperlinks—if to VDARE.com , click through to underlying Respectable Source ; we ’ ve also supplied further citations [ in square brackets ] from the MSM and other Respectable Sources .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many years , we are thrilled to see so many VDARE.com themes finally surfacing in a Presidential campaign .
Thank you for joining me today .
This was going to be a speech on Hillary Clinton and how bad a President , especially in these times of Radical Islamic Terrorism , she would be .
Even her former Secret Service Agent , who has seen her under pressure and in times of stress , has stated that she lacks the temperament and integrity to be president .
There will be plenty of opportunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later time , and I will deliver that speech soon .
But today there is only one thing to discuss : the growing threat of terrorism inside of our borders .
The attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando , Florida , was the worst terrorist strike on our soil since September 11th , and the worst mass shooting in our country ’ s history .
So many people dead , so many people gravely injured , so much carnage , such a disgrace .
The horror is beyond description .
The families @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Likewise , our whole nation , and indeed the whole world , is devastated .
We express our deepest sympathies to the victims , the wounded , and their families .
We mourn , as one people , for our nation ’ s loss—and pledge our support to any and all who need it .
I would like to ask now that we all observe a moment of silence for the victims of the attack .
Our nation stands together in solidarity with the members of Orlando 's LGBT Community .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s history .
A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only because he wanted to kill Americans , but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation .
It is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation .
It is an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives , love who they want and express their identity .
It is an attack on the right of every single American to live in peace and safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to respond to this attack on America as one united people—with force , purpose and determination .
But the current Politically Correct response cripples our ability to talk and think and act clearly .
If we do n't get tough , and we do n't get smart—and fast—we 're not going to have a country anymore—there will be nothing left .
The killer , whose name I will not use , or ever say , was born to Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States .
[ PB : at this point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ text very slightly to say that the killer was “ born an Afghan ” and everyone in the MSM said “ No !
Citizen !
” the way they do .
But Trump was right—Mateen was born an Afghan , it ’ s just that he was born an Afghan in the United States , the way Kipling was born an Englishmen in India . ]
His father published support for the Afghan Taliban , a regime which murders those who don ’ t share its radical views .
The father even said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country .
The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here .
[ PB : Aha !
I used almost exactly the same words more than twenty years ago in my much-denounced 1995 immigration book Alien Nation ( and was condemned for them by Christopher Hitchens ) and in Virginia Tech Massacre : Gun Control—Or Immigration Control ?
in April 2007 .
( This time I was condemned by an immigration law professor and some Asian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( because nothing had changed—cf .
9/11 ) in San Bernardino : The Answer Is An Immigration Moratorium—And Muslim Expulsion in December 2015 .
I will no doubt have opportunity to go on repeating them—because they ’ re true . ]
That is a fact , and it 's a fact we need to talk about .
We have a dysfunctional immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country , and it does not permit us to protect our citizens .
We have an incompetent administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President , that will not change over the next four years—but it must change , and it must change now .
With fifty people dead , and dozens more wounded , we can not afford to talk around the issue anymore—we have to address it head on .
I called for a ban after San Bernardino , and was met with great scorn and anger but now , many are saying I was right to do so—and although the pause is temporary , we must find out what is going on .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nation are in a position to properly and perfectly screen those people coming into our country .
The immigration laws of the United States give the President the power to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons that the President deems detrimental to the interests or security of the United States , as he deems appropriate .
[ Title 8 , Section 1182 of the U.S. Code ] I will use this power to protect the American people .
When I am elected , I will suspend immigration from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a proven history of terrorism against the United States , Europe or our allies , until we understand how to end these threats .
After a full , impartial and long overdue security assessment , we will develop a responsible immigration policy that serves the interests and values of America .
We can not continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country , many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer .
Many of the principles of Radical Islam are incompatible with Western values @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America to become a place where gay people , Christian people , and Jewish people , are the targets of persecution and intimidation by Radical Islamic preachers of hate and violence .
It ’ s not just a national security issue .
It is a quality of life issue .
If we want to protect the quality of life for all Americans—women and children , gay and straight , Jews and Christians and all people—then we need to tell the truth about Radical Islam .
We need to tell the truth , also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to our shores .
We are importing Radical Islamic Terrorism into the West through a failed immigration system—and through an intelligence community held back by our president .
Even our own FBI Director has admitted that we can not effectively check the backgrounds of the people we are letting into America .
[ Senior Obama officials have warned of challenges in screening refugees from Syria , By Jerry Markon November 17 , 2015 ] All of the September 11th hijackers were issued visas .
Large numbers of Somali refugees in Minnesota have tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came here through political asylum .
The male shooter in San Bernardino—again , whose name I wo n't mention—was the child of immigrants from Pakistan , and he brought his wife—the other terrorist—from Saudi Arabia , through another one of our easily exploited visa programs .
Immigration from Afghanistan into the United States has increased nearly five-fold in just one year .
According to Pew Research , 99 % of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law .
[ Muslims and Islam : Key findings in the U.S. and around the world , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2015 ] We admit many more from other countries in the region who share these same oppressive views .
If we want to remain a free and open society , then we have to control our borders .
Yet , Hillary Clinton—for months and despite so many attacks—repeatedly refused to even say the words “ radical Islam , ” until I challenged her yesterday to say the words or leave the race .
[ Hillary Clinton explains why she wo n't say 'radical Islam ' , By Eric Brader , CNNPolitics.com , December @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clinton—who has been forced to say the words today after policies she supports have caused us so much damage—still has no clue what Radical Islam is , and won ’ t speak honestly about what it is .
She is in total denial , and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the world .
In fact , just a few weeks before the San Bernardino slaughter , Hillary Clinton explained her refusal to say the words Radical Islam .
Here is what she said : “ Muslims are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
” Hillary Clinton says the solution is to ban guns .
They tried that in France , which has among the toughest gun laws in the world , and 130 were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists in cold blood .
Her plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans , abolishing the 2nd amendment , and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns .
She wants to take away Americans ’ guns , then admit the very people who want to slaughter us .
I will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given me their earliest endorsement in a Presidential race , to discuss how to ensure Americans have the means to protect themselves in this age of terror .
The bottom line is that Hillary supports the policies that bring the threat of Radical Islam into America , and allow it to grow overseas .
In fact , Hillary Clinton ’ s catastrophic immigration plan will bring vastly more Radical Islamic immigration into this country , threatening not only our security but our way of life .
When it comes to Radical Islamic terrorism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Obama Administration , with the support of Hillary Clinton and others , has also damaged our security by restraining our intelligence-gathering and failing to support law enforcement .
They have put Political Correctness above common sense , above your safety , and above all else .
[ Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants , Former Official Says , By Brian Ross , ABC News , December 14 , 2015 ] I will do the right thing—I want to straighten things out and to Make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deadly ignorance will end , and they will end soon .
As President I will give our intelligence community , law enforcement and military the tools they need to prevent terrorist attacks .
We need an intelligence-gathering system second to none .
That includes better cooperation between state , local and federal officials—and with our allies .
I will have an Attorney General , a Director of National Intelligence , and a Secretary of Defense who will know how to fight the war on Radical Islamic Terrorism—and who will have the support they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We also must ensure the American people are provided the information they need to understand the threat .
The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration has already identified hundreds of immigrants charged with terrorist activities inside the United States since September 11th .
[ Chart Lists Terrorists in U.S. Due to Lax Immigration Policies , Judicial Watch , August 18 , 2015 ( PDF ) ] Nearly a year ago , the Senate Subcommittee asked President Obama 's Departments of Justice , State and Homeland Security to provide the immigration history of all terrorists inside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ release the full and complete immigration histories of all individuals implicated in terrorist activity of any kind since 9/11 .
The public has a right to know how these people got here .
[ PB : This echoes Steve Sailer ’ s frequently-repeated proposal that a “ National Immigration Safety Board , ” like the National Transportation Safety Board , be set up to investigate immigrant atrocities . ]
We have to screen applicants to know whether they are affiliated with , or support , radical groups and beliefs .
We have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country to prevent large pockets of radicalization from forming inside America .
Even a single individual can be devastating , just look at what happened in Orlando .
Can you imagine large groups ?
Truly , our President does n't know what he is doing .
He has failed us , and failed us badly , and under his leadership , this situation will not get any better—it will only get worse .
Each year , the United States permanently admits more than 100,000 immigrants from the Middle East , and many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East .
Our government has been admitting ever-growing numbers , year after year , without any effective plan for our security .
In fact , Clinton 's State Department was in charge of the admissions process for people applying to enter from overseas .
Having learned nothing from these attacks , she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan , including a 500 % increase in Syrian refugees .
This could be a better , bigger version of the legendary Trojan Horse .
We ca n't let this happen .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ you 'd be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to vet them , or to prevent the radicalization of their children .
The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why she believes immigration from these dangerous countries should be increased without any effective system to screen who we are bringing in .
The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian Americans .
The burden is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how she will pay for it .
Her plan will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars long-term .
Would n't this money be better spent on rebuilding America for our current population , including the many poor people already living here ?
We have to stop the tremendous flow of Syrian refugees into the United States—we do n't know who they are , they have no documentation , and we do n't know what they 're planning .
What I want is common sense .
[ PB : Aha !
( Again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America 's Immigration Disaster ] .
I want a mainstream immigration policy that promotes American values .
That is the choice I put before the American people : a mainstream immigration policy designed to benefit America , or Hillary Clinton 's radical immigration policy designed to benefit politically-correct special interests .
We 've got to get smart , and tough , and vigilant , and we 've got to do it now , because later is too late .
Ask yourself , who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Hillary Clinton with her words ?
Clinton wants to allow Radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country—they enslave women , and murder gays .
I don ’ t want them in our country .
The media talks about “ homegrown , ” terrorism , but Islamic radicalism , and the networks that nurture it , are imports from overseas .
Yes , there are many radicalized people already inside our country as a result of the poor policies of the past .
But the whole point is that it will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our current problem if we don ’ t keep on bringing in people who add to the problem .
For instance , the controversial Mosque attended by the Boston Bombers had as its founder an immigrant from overseas charged in an assassination plot .
This shooter in Orlando was the child of an immigrant father who supported one of the most repressive regimes on Earth .
Why would we admit people who support violent hatred ?
Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islamic extremists to our country who suppress women , gays and anyone who doesn ’ t share their views .
She can ’ t have it both ways .
She can ’ t claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress them .
[ PB : Vis-a-vis feminism , VDARE.com ’ s Brenda Walker has been making this point for years e.g .
Liberal Feminists Demand More Violence and Sexism ( aka Diverse Immigration ) in 2013 .
Vis-à-vis gays @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly get the point , but they tend to stay in the ( immigration ) closet because of that community ’ s fierce political discipline . ]
How does this kind of immigration make our life better ?
How does this kind of immigration make our country better ?
[ PB : Aha !
( Again ) .
The ending of Alien Nation was titled “ CONCLUSION : ARE WE BETTER OFF ?
” alluding to Ronald Reagan ’ s famous crushing of Jimmy Carter with ” `` Are you better off than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Debate , October 28 , 1980 ) The question here is “ Are we better off than we were before the Immigration Act of 1965 ?
” ] Why does Hillary Clinton want to bring people here—in vast numbers—who reject our values ?
Immigration is a privilege , and we should not let anyone into this country who doesn ’ t support our communities—all of our communities .
America has already admitted four times more immigrants than any country on earth , and we continue to admit millions more with no real checks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for our workers haven ’ t budged in many years .
So whether it ’ s matter of national security , or financial security , we can ’ t afford to keep on going like this .
We owe $ 19 trillion in debt , and no longer have options .
All our communities , from all backgrounds , are ready for some relief .
This is not an act of offense against anyone ; it is an act of defense .
I want us all to work together , including in partnership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communities must cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad—and they do know where they are .
I want to fix our schools , roads , bridges and job market .
I want every American to succeed .
Hillary Clinton wants to empty out the Treasury to bring people into the country that include individuals who preach hate against our own citizens .
I want to protect our citizens—all of our citizens .
The terrorist attack on the Pulse Night Club demands a full and complete investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In San Bernardino , as an example , people knew what was going on , but they used the excuse of racial profiling for not reporting it .
We need to know what the killer discussed with his relatives , parents , friends and associates .
We need to know if he was affiliated with any radical Mosques or radical activists and what , if any , is their immigration status .
We need to know if he travelled anywhere , and who he travelled with .
We need to make sure every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone who knew something but did n't tell us—is brought to justice .
If it can be proven that somebody had information about any attack , and did not give this information to authorities , they must serve prison time .
America must do more—much more—to protect its citizens , especially people who are potential victims of crimes based on their backgrounds or sexual orientations .
It also means we must change our foreign policy .
[ PB : i.e .
end “ Invade The World .
Invite The world.
” ] The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then pushing for the overthrow of the regime in Syria , among other things , without plans for the day after , have created space for ISIS to expand and grow .
These actions , along with our disastrous Iran deal , have also reduced our ability to work in partnership with our Muslim allies in the region .
That is why our new goal must be to defeat Islamic terrorism , not nation-building .
For instance , the last major NATO mission was Hillary Clinton 's war in Libya .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continent .
I 've said NATO needs to change its focus to stopping terrorism .
Since I 've raised that criticism , NATO has since announced a new initiative focused on just that .
America must unite the whole civilized world in the fight against Islamic terrorism , just like we did against communism in the Cold War .
We 've tried it President Obama 's way .
He gave the world his apology tour , we got ISIS , and many other problems , in return .
I 'd like to conclude @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solidarity with the people of Orlando who have come under attack .
When I am President , I pledge to protect and defend all Americans who live inside of our borders .
Wherever they come from , wherever they were born , all Americans living here and following our laws will be protected .
America will be a tolerant and open society .
America will also be a safe society .
We will protect our borders at home .
We will ensure every parent can raise their children in peace and safety .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ We will make America safe again .
We will make American Great Again .

This speech by Donald J. Trump is one of the reasons he won in 2016; Hillary Clinton (like Joe Biden) wanted more Muslims. It also, in the form of the "travel ban," represents one of his successes. Published here on this day in 2016.
After Orlando, Donald J. Trump Addresses Terrorism, Immigration, and National Security, June 13, 2016
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: Immigration really is the Third Rail of American politics, not because Americans like it—they don’t—but because powerful elite economic and ethnic interests do. And they react any mention of it with rage and repression. Thus, as Ann Coulter asked, Did Anyone Talking About Trump’s Speech Actually Hear It? And, as Byron York says:
The Muslim ban proposal has set off near-hysterical reactions among both Democrats and some anti-Trump Republicans…. But Trump, supported by current events—the Orlando shooter's family just happened to come from one of the worst countries in the world in terms of Muslim radicalization — could reset the debate just the same. [A rational reading of Trump's Muslim proposals, Washington Examiner, June 17, 2016. Emphasis added.]
Although you wouldn’t know it from the Main Stream Media, Trump’s June 13 speech was in some ways the most impressive English-language speech on immigration since Enoch Powell in 1968. We present it here with our trademark supporting hyperlinks—if to VDARE.com, click through to underlying Respectable Source; we’ve also supplied further citations [in square brackets] from the MSM and other Respectable Sources.
It goes without saying that, after so many years, we are thrilled to see so many VDARE.com themes finally surfacing in a Presidential campaign.
Donald J. Trump:
Thank you for joining me today.
This was going to be a speech on Hillary Clinton and how bad a President, especially in these times of Radical Islamic Terrorism, she would be.
Even her former Secret Service Agent, who has seen her under pressure and in times of stress, has stated that she lacks the temperament and integrity to be president.
There will be plenty of opportunity to discuss these important issues at a later time, and I will deliver that speech soon.
But today there is only one thing to discuss: the growing threat of terrorism inside of our borders.
The attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was the worst terrorist strike on our soil since September 11th, and the worst mass shooting in our country’s history.
So many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace.
The horror is beyond description.
The families of these wonderful people are totally devastated. Likewise, our whole nation, and indeed the whole world, is devastated.
We express our deepest sympathies to the victims, the wounded, and their families.
We mourn, as one people, for our nation’s loss—and pledge our support to any and all who need it.
I would like to ask now that we all observe a moment of silence for the victims of the attack.
[SILENCE]
Our nation stands together in solidarity with the members of Orlando's LGBT Community.
This is a very dark moment in America’s history.
A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation.
It is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation.
It is an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives, love who they want and express their identity.
It is an attack on the right of every single American to live in peace and safety in their own country.
We need to respond to this attack on America as one united people—with force, purpose and determination.
But the current Politically Correct response cripples our ability to talk and think and act clearly.
If we don't get tough, and we don't get smart—and fast—we're not going to have a country anymore—there will be nothing left.
The killer, whose name I will not use, or ever say, was born to Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States. [PB: at this point in the speech Trump deviated from the text very slightly to say that the killer was “born an Afghan” and everyone in the MSM said“No! Citizen!”the way they do. But Trump was right—Mateen wasborn an Afghan, it’s just that he was born an Afghan in the United States, the way Kipling was born an Englishman in India.] His father published support for the Afghan Taliban, a regime which murders those who don’t share its radical views. The father even said he was running for President of that country.
The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here.
[PB: Aha! I used almost exactly the same words more than twenty years ago in mymuch-denounced 1995 immigration book Alien Nation (and was condemned for them by Christopher Hitchens) and in Virginia Tech Massacre: Gun Control—Or Immigration Control? in April 2007. (This time I was condemned by an immigration law professor and some Asian. ) Furthermore, I repeated them (because nothing had changed—cf. 9/11) in San Bernardino: The Answer Is An Immigration Moratorium—And Muslim Expulsion in December 2015. I will no doubt have opportunity to go on repeating them—because they’re true.]
That is a fact, and it's a fact we need to talk about.
We have a dysfunctional immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens.
We have an incompetent administration, and if I am not elected President, that will not change over the next four years—but it must change, and it must change now.
With fifty people dead, and dozens more wounded, we cannot afford to talk around the issue anymore—we have to address it head on.
I called for a ban after San Bernardino, and was met with great scorn and anger but now, many are saying I was right to do so—and although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. The ban will be lifted when we as a nation are in a position to properly and perfectly screen those people coming into our country.
The immigration laws of the United States give the President the power to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons that the President deems detrimental to the interests or security of the United States, as he deems appropriate. [Title 8, Section 1182 of the U.S. Code]
I will use this power to protect the American people. When I am elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world when there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we understand how to end these threats.
After a full, impartial and long overdue security assessment, we will develop a responsible immigration policy that serves the interests and values of America.
We cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer.
Many of the principles of Radical Islam are incompatible with Western values and institutions.
Radical Islam is anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-American.
I refuse to allow America to become a place where gay people, Christian people, and Jewish people, are the targets of persecution and intimidation by Radical Islamic preachers of hate and violence.
It’s not just a national security issue. It is a quality of life issue.
If we want to protect the quality of life for all Americans—women and children, gay and straight, Jews and Christians and all people—then we need to tell the truth about Radical Islam.
We need to tell the truth, also, about how Radical Islam is coming to our shores.
We are importing Radical Islamic Terrorism into the West through a failed immigration system—and through an intelligence community held back by our president.
Even our own FBI Director has admitted that we cannot effectively check the backgrounds of the people we are letting into America [Senior Obama officials have warned of challenges in screening refugees from Syria, by Jerry Markon November 17, 2015].
All of the September 11th hijackers were issued visas.
Large numbers of Somali refugees in Minnesota have tried to join ISIS.
The Boston Bombers came here through political asylum.
The male shooter in San Bernardino—again, whose name I won't mention—was the child of immigrants from Pakistan, and he brought his wife—the other terrorist—from Saudi Arabia, through another one of our easily exploited visa programs.
Immigration from Afghanistan into the United States has increased nearly five-fold in just one year. According to Pew Research, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law. [Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world, By Michael Lipka, December 7, 2015]
We admit many more from other countries in the region who share these same oppressive views.
If we want to remain a free and open society, then we have to control our borders.
Yet, Hillary Clinton—for months and despite so many attacks—repeatedly refused to even say the words “radical Islam,” until I challenged her yesterday to say the words or leave the race [Hillary Clinton explains why she won't say 'radical Islam', by Eric Brader, CNNPolitics.com, December 7, 2015].
However, Hillary Clinton—who has been forced to say the words today after policies she supports have caused us so much damage—still has no clue what Radical Islam is, and won’t speak honestly about what it is.
She is in total denial, and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the world.
In fact, just a few weeks before the San Bernardino slaughter, Hillary Clinton explained her refusal to say the words Radical Islam. Here is what she said: “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people, and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”
Hillary Clinton says the solution is to ban guns. They tried that in France, which has among the toughest gun laws in the world, and 130 were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists in cold blood. Her plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans, abolishing the 2nd amendment, and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. She wants to take away Americans’ guns, then admit the very people who want to slaughter us.
I will be meeting with the NRA, which has given me their earliest endorsement in a Presidential race, to discuss how to ensure Americans have the means to protect themselves in this age of terror.
The bottom line is that Hillary supports the policies that bring the threat of Radical Islam into America, and allow it to grow overseas.
In fact, Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic immigration plan will bring vastly more Radical Islamic immigration into this country, threatening not only our security but our way of life.
When it comes to Radical Islamic terrorism, ignorance is not bliss—it's deadly.
The Obama Administration, with the support of Hillary Clinton and others, has also damaged our security by restraining our intelligence-gathering and failing to support law enforcement. They have put Political Correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else [Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says, by Brian Ross, ABC News, December 14, 2015].
I refuse to be Politically Correct.
I will do the right thing—I want to straighten things out and to Make America Great Again.
The days of deadly ignorance will end, and they will end soon.
As President I will give our intelligence community, law enforcement and military the tools they need to prevent terrorist attacks.
We need an intelligence-gathering system second to none. That includes better cooperation between state, local and federal officials—and with our allies.
I will have an Attorney General, a Director of National Intelligence, and a Secretary of Defense who will know how to fight the war on Radical Islamic Terrorism—and who will have the support they require to get the job done.
We also must ensure the American people are provided the information they need to understand the threat.
The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration has already identified hundreds of immigrants charged with terrorist activities inside the United States since September 11th [ Chart Lists Terrorists in U.S. Due to Lax Immigration Policies, Judicial Watch, August 18, 2015 (PDF)].
Nearly a year ago, the Senate Subcommittee asked President Obama's Departments of Justice, State and Homeland Security to provide the immigration history of all terrorists inside the United States.
These Departments refused to comply.
President Obama must release the full and complete immigration histories of all individuals implicated in terrorist activity of any kind since 9/11.
The public has a right to know how these people got here.
[PB: This echoes Steve Sailer’s frequently-repeated proposal that a “National Immigration Safety Board,” like the National Transportation Safety Board, be set up to investigateimmigrant atrocities.]
We have to screen applicants to know whether they are affiliated with, or support, radical groups and beliefs.
We have to control the amount of future immigration into this country to prevent large pockets of radicalization from forming inside America.
Even a single individual can be devastating, just look at what happened in Orlando. Can you imagine large groups?
Truly, our President doesn't know what he is doing. He has failed us, and failed us badly, and under his leadership, this situation will not get any better—it will only get worse.
Each year, the United States permanently admits more than 100,000 immigrants from the Middle East, and many more from Muslim countries outside the Middle East. Our government has been admitting ever-growing numbers, year after year, without any effective plan for our security.
In fact, Clinton's State Department was in charge of the admissions process for people applying to enter from overseas.
Having learned nothing from these attacks, she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan, including a 500% increase in Syrian refugees.
This could be a better, bigger version of the legendary Trojan Horse.
We can't let this happen.
Altogether, under the Clinton plan, you'd be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to vet them, or to prevent the radicalization of their children.
The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why she believes immigration from these dangerous countries should be increased without any effective system to screen who we are bringing in.
The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian Americans.
The burden is also on Hillary Clinton to tell us how she will pay for it. Her plan will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars long-term.
Wouldn't this money be better spent on rebuilding America for our current population, including the many poor people already living here?
We have to stop the tremendous flow of Syrian refugees into the United States—we don't know who they are, they have no documentation, and we don't know what they're planning.
What I want is common sense. [PB: Aha! (Again) Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster]. I want a mainstream immigration policy that promotes American values.
That is the choice I put before the American people: a mainstream immigration policy designed to benefit America, or Hillary Clinton's radical immigration policy designed to benefit politically-correct special interests.
We've got to get smart, and tough, and vigilant, and we've got to do it now, because later is too late .
Ask yourself, who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community, Donald Trump with his actions, or Hillary Clinton with her words? Clinton wants to allow Radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country—they enslave women, and murder gays.
I don’t want them in our country.
The media talks about “homegrown,” terrorism, but Islamic radicalism, and the networks that nurture it, are imports from overseas.
Yes, there are many radicalized people already inside our country as a result of the poor policies of the past. But the whole point is that it will be much, much easier to deal with our current problem if we don’t keep on bringing in people who add to the problem.
For instance, the controversial Mosque attended by the Boston Bombers had as its founder an immigrant from overseas charged in an assassination plot.
This shooter in Orlando was the child of an immigrant father who supported one of the most repressive regimes on Earth. Why would we admit people who support violent hatred?
Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country who suppress women, gays and anyone who doesn’t share their views.
She can’t have it both ways. She can’t claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress them.
[PB: Vis-à-vis feminism, VDARE.com’s Brenda Walker has been making this point for years e.g. Liberal Feminists Demand More Violence and Sexism (aka Diverse Immigration) in 2013. Vis-à-vis gays, VDARE.com’s many gay supporters certainly get the point, but they tend to stay in the (immigration) closet because of that community’s fierce political discipline.]
How does this kind of immigration make our life better? How does this kind of immigration make our country better?
[PB: Aha! (Again). The ending of Alien Nation was titled “CONCLUSION: ARE WE BETTER OFF?” alluding to Ronald Reagan’s famous crushing of Jimmy Carter with "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Debate, October 28, 1980) The question here is “Are we better off than we were before the Immigration Act of 1965?”]
Why does Hillary Clinton want to bring people here—in vast numbers—who reject our values?
Immigration is a privilege, and we should not let anyone into this country who doesn’t support our communities—all of our communities.
America has already admitted four times more immigrants than any country on earth, and we continue to admit millions more with no real checks or scrutiny.
Not surprisingly, wages for our workers haven’t budged in many years.
So whether it’s matter of national security, or financial security, we can’t afford to keep on going like this. We owe $19 trillion in debt, and no longer have options.
All our communities, from all backgrounds, are ready for some relief. This is not an act of offense against anyone; it is an act of defense.
I want us all to work together, including in partnership with our Muslim communities. But Muslim communities must cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad—and they do know where they are.
I want to fix our schools, roads, bridges and job market. I want every American to succeed. Hillary Clinton wants to empty out the Treasury to bring people into the country that include individuals who preach hate against our own citizens.
I want to protect our citizens—all of our citizens.
The terrorist attack on the Pulse Night Club demands a full and complete investigation into every aspect of the assault.
In San Bernardino, as an example, people knew what was going on, but they used the excuse of racial profiling for not reporting it.
We need to know what the killer discussed with his relatives, parents, friends and associates.
We need to know if he was affiliated with any radical Mosques or radical activists and what, if any, is their immigration status.
We need to know if he travelled anywhere, and who he travelled with.
We need to make sure every single last person involved in this plan—including anyone who knew something but didn't tell us—is brought to justice.
If it can be proven that somebody had information about any attack, and did not give this information to authorities, they must serve prison time.
America must do more—much more—to protect its citizens, especially people who are potential victims of crimes based on their backgrounds or sexual orientations.
It also means we must change our foreign policy. [PB: i.e., end “Invade The World. Invite The World.”]
The decision to overthrow the regime in Libya, then pushing for the overthrow of the regime in Syria, among other things, without plans for the day after, have created space for ISIS to expand and grow.
These actions, along with our disastrous Iran deal, have also reduced our ability to work in partnership with our Muslim allies in the region.
That is why our new goal must be to defeat Islamic terrorism, not nation-building.
For instance, the last major NATO mission was Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. That mission helped unleash ISIS on a new continent.
I've said NATO needs to change its focus to stopping terrorism. Since I've raised that criticism, NATO has since announced a new initiative focused on just that.
America must unite the whole civilized world in the fight against Islamic terrorism, just like we did against communism in the Cold War.
We've tried it President Obama's way. He gave the world his apology tour, we got ISIS, and many other problems, in return.
I'd like to conclude my remarks today by again expressing our solidarity with the people of Orlando who have come under attack.
When I am President, I pledge to protect and defend all Americans who live inside of our borders. Wherever they come from, wherever they were born, all Americans living here and following our laws will be protected.
America will be a tolerant and open society.
America will also be a safe society.
We will protect our borders at home.
We will defeat ISIS overseas.
We will ensure every parent can raise their children in peace and safety.
We will make America rich again.
We will make America safe again.
We will make American Great Again.
Thank you.


vdare--2020-11-18--The Not So Great Reset: “Build Back Dumber”

From my new column in Taki ’ s Magazine : With Moderna ’ s announcement on Monday of a second extremely effective vaccine ( which reduces your chance of getting COVID by 18/19ths ) to go along with Pfizer ’ s vaccine , we can now see a definite light at the end of the pandemic tunnel .
This will prove disappointing to many elites , who have enthusiastically latched onto the idea that the virus justifies “ The Great Reset ” : policies hyped to , as Joe Biden would say , “ Build Back Better , ” which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they had already felt like doing to us beforehand .
For example , Time magazine ’ s Nov. 2 , 2020 , cover story “ The Great Reset ” includes a collection of featurettes by the Great and the Good explaining what they have in mind for us , which is mostly more of the same , only more so .
… I ’ m less worried that there is a carefully calculated master plan than that our elites are just making things up as they go along based on the latest Woke @ @ @

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Build Back Dumber
Steve Sailer
November 18, 2020
With Moderna’s announcement on Monday of a second extremely effective vaccine (which reduces your chance of getting COVID by 18/19ths) to go along with Pfizer’s vaccine, we can now see a definite light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
This will prove disappointing to many elites, who have enthusiastically latched onto the idea that the virus justifies “The Great Reset”: policies hyped to, as Joe Biden would say, “Build Back Better,” which, coincidentally, happen to be whatever they had already felt like doing to us beforehand.
For example, Time magazine’s Nov. 2, 2020, cover story “The Great Reset” includes a collection of featurettes by the Great and the Good explaining what they have in mind for us, which is mostly more of the same, only more so. …
I’m less worried that there is a carefully calculated master plan than that our elites are just making things up as they go along based on the latest Woke bad ideas.


vdare--2020-11-18--Pfizer Releases Final Vaccine Stats: 162/170th Effective

With baseball season and the supply of new baseball statistics over , I ’ m really getting into vaccine stats as a substitute .
Especially because they have recently been like Cody Bellinger in April 2019 : Last night , your favorite player hit two more homers and threw the tying run out at home .
From StatNews : Pfizer and BioNTech to submit Covid-19 vaccine data to FDA as full results show 95 % efficacy By DAMIAN GARDE @ damiangarde and MATTHEW HERPER @ matthewherper NOVEMBER 18 , 2020 Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that the efficacy portion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , showing the vaccine to prevent 95 % of cases of the disease .
The companies said that they plan to submit to the Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization “ within days , ” and will also submit to regulatory agencies around the globe .
The results come little more than a week after the companies said an earlier analysis from the study showed the vaccine reduced infections by more than 90 % , and just days after another company , Moderna , said that a similar vaccine reduced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the results raise hopes that vaccines will be broadly available sometime next year , and also , perhaps , that other vaccines against the disease will also prove effective .
In a conversation at the STAT Summit Tuesday , Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that viewing the earlier data on the efficacy of the vaccine had been a high point in his life .
“ When I heard the over 90 % efficacy , I felt I was living a dream , ” he said .
Of the 170 cases of Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occurred in the placebo group and just eight among the group that got its two-dose vaccine .
Of the 10 cases of severe Covid-19 , nine were in the placebo group , an important finding which suggests the vaccine prevents not only mild cases , but the type of serious disease that leads patients to die or be hospitalized .
In the early look at the Moderna trial , which is not yet complete , there were 11 cases of severe disease , all in the placebo group .

With baseball season and the supply of new baseball statistics over, I’m really getting into vaccine stats as a substitute. Especially because they have recently been like Cody Bellinger in April 2019: Last night, your favorite player hit two more homers and threw the tying run out at home. From StatNews:
Pfizer and BioNTech to submit Covid-19 vaccine data to FDA as full results show 95% efficacy
By DAMIAN GARDE @damiangarde and MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that the efficacy portion of their Covid-19 vaccine trial has been completed, showing the vaccine to prevent 95% of cases of the disease.
The companies said that they plan to submit to the Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization “within days,” and will also submit to regulatory agencies around the globe.
The results come little more than a week after the companies said an earlier analysis from the study showed the vaccine reduced infections by more than 90%, and just days after another company, Moderna, said that a similar vaccine reduced infections by 94.5%. Taken together, the results raise hopes that vaccines will be broadly available sometime next year, and also, perhaps, that other vaccines against the disease will also prove effective.
In a conversation at the STAT Summit Tuesday, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that viewing the earlier data on the efficacy of the vaccine had been a high point in his life. “When I heard the over 90% efficacy, I felt I was living a dream,” he said.
Of the 170 cases of Covid-19 Pfizer observed in its trial, 162 occurred in the placebo group and just eight among the group that got its two-dose vaccine. Of the 10 cases of severe Covid-19, nine were in the placebo group, an important finding which suggests the vaccine prevents not only mild cases, but the type of serious disease that leads patients to die or be hospitalized.
In the early look at the Moderna trial, which is not yet complete, there were 11 cases of severe disease, all in the placebo group.


vdare--2020-11-19--Radio Derb Transcript Up For November 13: Back To Open Borders?, Light In The Gloom, Europe Slowly S

Radio Derb Transcript Up For November 13: Back To Open Borders?, Light In The Gloom, Europe Slowly Sinks, And Retreat From Kabul, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for November 13 .
Go here to read or listen .
05m45s Light in @ @ @ @ @ Biden Rush might help . )
17m50s The retreat from Kabul .
( Trump fires @ @ @ @ @ Sad faces in the Kremlin .
( Elites really believe Russia-Russia . )
29m47s Turkmenistan @ @ @ @ @ Why do n't we have one ? )
33m28s Derbyshire moos .
( Not much @ @ @ @ @ 36m47s Hillary feels better !
( After four years of teeth-grinding . )
38m11s Toobin @ @ @ @ @ words of encouragement . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for November 13. Go here to read or listen.
01m45s Back to open borders. (Biden's immigration policy.)
05m45s Light in the gloom? (A Biden Rush might help.)
12m32s Europe slowly sinks. (Britain too.)
17m50s The retreat from Kabul. (Trump fires his DefSec.)
23m38s Sad faces in the Kremlin. (Elites really believe Russia-Russia.)
29m47s Turkmenistan's National Dog. (Why don't we have one?)
33m28s Derbyshire moos. (Not much happens in Belper.)
36m47s Hillary feels better! (After four years of teeth-grinding.)
38m11s Toobin gets fired. (Some words of encouragement.)
39m31s Tot-tossing in France. (A passion for learning.)
41m22s Aussies grovel. (Cultural appropriation Down Under.)
43m41s Signoff. (O Valiant Hearts.)


vdare--2020-11-19--Michael Lind: “The Revenge of the Yankees”

In Tablet , neo-New Dealer Michael Lind offers an interesting theory of the FDR coalition and analogy to the Great Awokening as the new Establishment form of gentility : The Revenge of the Yankees How Social Gospel became Social Justice BY MICHAEL LIND NOVEMBER 15 , 2020 Is America disintegrating into anarchy and civil war among races , religions , and regions ?
Is the country more divided than ever before ?
The answer is no .
The social and economic divides among white Northerners and white Southerners , Blacks and whites , Catholics and Protestants and Jews were much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today in 2020 .
What has happened is that the formerly unified , mostly Northern mainline Protestant American establishment has—perhaps temporarily—broken down , allowing the actual diversity of interests and opinions in the United States to be expressed rather than suppressed .
If the emerging woke national establishment has its way , however , that diversity of viewpoints and values will soon be suppressed once again , in favor of an intolerant and exclusive doctrine that greatly resembles the old-time Social Gospel from which it is derived .
With the exceptions of Grover @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president between 1861 and 1933 was a Republican mainline Protestant from the North or Midwest .
The Republican Party , still the Lincoln coalition of Northern industrialists and Yankee Protestants , dominated Congress in the same era .
Industry and finance were in the hands of a small number of Northeastern financiers , many of them old-stock Northeastern Protestants like J.P. Morgan .
While there were some important Jewish financiers , Jews along with Catholics were kept out of many snobbish Wall Street firms until well after World War II .
The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ misunderstood , both politically and culturally , when it is treated as a left-wing rebellion against right-wing capitalism .
Fundamentally it represented the partial overthrow of Yankee Protestant hegemony in American society by a coalition of outsiders , chiefly provincial Southern and Western whites and European-American immigrants in the North , many of them Catholic .
The Democratic Party that dominated the United States between the 1930s and the 1980s had a few Yankee progressive members , but it was essentially the old Jacksonian alliance of white Southerners and non-British “ white ethnics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Truman is understood correctly as a cultural Southerner from Missouri , then with one exception every Democratic president between Roosevelt and Obama was a white Southerner—Truman , Johnson , Carter , and Clinton .
The one exception was John F. Kennedy , from the other wing of the Jacksonian anti-Yankee alliance of Southerners and Irish Americans .
Meanwhile , the Solid South combined with the seniority system ensured that Southerners , many of them segregationists , dominated Congress and the Senate throughout the New Deal era .
Most New Deal Democratic politicians were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They often represented socially conservative local business elites who resented the fact that Northern bankers often would only finance infrastructure projects in the South and West that locked those regions into their assigned roles as resource colonies for factories in the Midwest and Northeast .
To break this neocolonial pattern of Northeastern economic domination , New Deal Democrats used federal state capitalism to industrialize and modernize the Southern and Western periphery , by means of rural electrification cooperatives , the Tennessee Valley Authority and other hydropower projects , defense production plants assigned to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ II , and the interstate highway system ( a favorite project of FDR which was only enacted under Eisenhower ) .
In short , Southern and Western politicians and their Northern white ethnic allies who dominated the federal government in the New Deal era deployed federal state capitalism to do an end run around unsympathetic Yankee capitalists , not to advance toward socialism or social democracy .
The New Deal era also witnessed the downfall of the post-Civil War New England/Midwestern hegemony in American literature and culture .
Following World War I , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New England and its offshoot , the upper Midwest , home of Sinclair Lewis ’ Babbitt and Sherwood Anderson ’ s Winesburg , Ohio .
… The postwar literary world underwent an ethnic succession , in which many white Southerners—including Willie Morris , Tom Wolfe , William Styron , Gore Vidal , and Truman Capote—together with Jewish writers and intellectuals like Saul Bellow , Philip Roth , and many others shouldered aside Northeastern WASP professors and novelists and purged the American literary canon of New Englanders like Longfellow , Whittier , and the @ @ @

In Tablet, neo-New Dealer Michael Lind offers an interesting theory of the FDR coalition and analogy to the Great Awokening as the new Establishment form of gentility:
The Revenge of the Yankees
How Social Gospel became Social Justice
BY
MICHAEL LIND
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Is America disintegrating into anarchy and civil war among races, religions, and regions? Is the country more divided than ever before? The answer is no. The social and economic divides among white Northerners and white Southerners, Blacks and whites, Catholics and Protestants and Jews were much more intense in 1920 than they are today in 2020. What has happened is that the formerly unified, mostly Northern mainline Protestant American establishment has—perhaps temporarily—broken down, allowing the actual diversity of interests and opinions in the United States to be expressed rather than suppressed. If the emerging woke national establishment has its way, however, that diversity of viewpoints and values will soon be suppressed once again, in favor of an intolerant and exclusive doctrine that greatly resembles the old-time Social Gospel from which it is derived.
With the exceptions of Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, every American president between 1861 and 1933 was a Republican mainline Protestant from the North or Midwest. The Republican Party, still the Lincoln coalition of Northern industrialists and Yankee Protestants, dominated Congress in the same era. Industry and finance were in the hands of a small number of Northeastern financiers, many of them old-stock Northeastern Protestants like J.P. Morgan. While there were some important Jewish financiers, Jews along with Catholics were kept out of many snobbish Wall Street firms until well after World War II.
The New Deal revolution of the 1930s is badly misunderstood, both politically and culturally, when it is treated as a left-wing rebellion against right-wing capitalism. Fundamentally it represented the partial overthrow of Yankee Protestant hegemony in American society by a coalition of outsiders, chiefly provincial Southern and Western whites and European-American immigrants in the North, many of them Catholic.
The Democratic Party that dominated the United States between the 1930s and the 1980s had a few Yankee progressive members, but it was essentially the old Jacksonian alliance of white Southerners and non-British “white ethnics” in the North. If Harry Truman is understood correctly as a cultural Southerner from Missouri, then with one exception every Democratic president between Roosevelt and Obama was a white Southerner—Truman, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton. The one exception was John F. Kennedy, from the other wing of the Jacksonian anti-Yankee alliance of Southerners and Irish Americans. Meanwhile, the Solid South combined with the seniority system ensured that Southerners, many of them segregationists, dominated Congress and the Senate throughout the New Deal era.
Most New Deal Democratic politicians were not anti-capitalist or opposed to industry. They often represented socially conservative local business elites who resented the fact that Northern bankers often would only finance infrastructure projects in the South and West that locked those regions into their assigned roles as resource colonies for factories in the Midwest and Northeast.
To break this neocolonial pattern of Northeastern economic domination, New Deal Democrats used federal state capitalism to industrialize and modernize the Southern and Western periphery, by means of rural electrification cooperatives, the Tennessee Valley Authority and other hydropower projects, defense production plants assigned to the South and West during World War II, and the interstate highway system (a favorite project of FDR which was only enacted under Eisenhower). In short, Southern and Western politicians and their Northern white ethnic allies who dominated the federal government in the New Deal era deployed federal state capitalism to do an end run around unsympathetic Yankee capitalists, not to advance toward socialism or social democracy.
The New Deal era also witnessed the downfall of the post-Civil War New England/Midwestern hegemony in American literature and culture. Following World War I, advanced intellectuals ridiculed the Puritan tradition in New England and its offshoot, the upper Midwest, home of Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. …
The postwar literary world underwent an ethnic succession, in which many white Southerners—including Willie Morris, Tom Wolfe, William Styron, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote—together with Jewish writers and intellectuals like Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and many others shouldered aside Northeastern WASP professors and novelists and purged the American literary canon of New Englanders like Longfellow, Whittier, and the Fireside Poets.


vdare--2020-11-18--“The Failer Strategy”—Why Trump Lost Ground With The White Working Class

The 2016 Presidential election results ( remember them ? )
were a vindication of four people : • First , the incomparable Pat Buchanan , who ran for the presidency three times on an America First platform , championing the ideas that ultimately propelled the Trump campaign .
Buchanan was a prophet—a man of foresight , courage , and vision who loved his people and delivered a warning that went unheeded .
Trump had the benefit of running in light of the damage and wreckage that Buchanan predicted .
• Second , Samuel Francis , editor , columnist and essayist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Middle American Radicals ” , a phalanx of dispossessed white working-class voters yearning for a populist tribune .
• Third , Steve Sailer , who has repeatedly argued that the GOP can still win national elections by maximizing the white vote .
The `` Sailer Strategy '' was the playbook the Trumpists implicitly followed—in 2016 .
• Fourth , Ann Coulter , whose book Adios America seems to have been read in Trump ’ s orbit and provided much of the rhetorical ammunition for his immigration agenda—in 2016 .
But four years later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raising legitimate questions about irregularities , anomalies and possible election fraud , we sit on the precipice of a Joe Biden presidency .
Joe Biden !
A man who is arguably senile , when not convinced he is really Neil Kinnock , who ran a McKinley-style campaign from his basement in Delaware and who plans to open America ’ s borders .
Here I ’ m relying on Fox News/ Associated Press ’ s analyses of voting behavior , which can be contrasted with its 2016 exit poll data .
I have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is much-disputed and is definitely subject to revision .
But given its methodology and sample size , the data produced by Fox/AP appear to me to be the most accurate for now .
Republicans have been crowing about their alleged success in expanding the party ’ s demographic base in the 2020 election .
But the GOP ’ s advance among racial minorities was more than off-set by marginal but decisive decreases in the white vote .
Quite a few in the commentariat , including some who should know better , are claiming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ class party that threatens to undermine the Democratic Party .
But they are not reckoning with the fact of Trump ’ s losses in the Rust Belt or the reasons for them : 1 ) Despite much chatter to the contrary , Donald Trump did not win a larger share of the black vote in 2020 .
In both 2016 and 2020 , according to Fox/AP , Trump won 8 % of blacks respectively .
Moreover , blacks were a smaller share of the electorate in 2020 ( 11 % ) than 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ While Donald Trump did better in 2020 among Hispanics , they were a smaller share of the electorate .
Trump won 35 % of Hispanics in 2020 vs. 28 % in 2016 .
But as a share of votes cast , Hispanics declined from 11 % in 2016 to 9 % in 2020 .
Whites were a larger percentage of the overall votes cast in 2020 ( 74 % ) than 2016 ( 71 % ) .
Trump won 57 % of the white vote in 2016 and 55 % in 2020 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because 4.6 % voted for Third Parties in 2016 , almost all white , vs. just 2 % in 2020 ) .
It was assumed by many that white women would turn en masse against the President , but that was not the case .
In 2020 , Trump matched his percentage from 2016 ( 52 % ) among White women—who were also a larger slice of the electorate in 2020 than 2016 ( 39 % vs. 37 % ) .
Meanwhile , white men were 34 % of the electorate in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But Trump declined with this demographic , slipping from 62 % in 2016 to 59 % in 2020 .
The decline among whites was more pronounced among the working class than college graduates .
Among white college graduates , Trump dropped to 46 % from his 2016 total of 48 % .
But he suffered a steeper decline among white men without a college degree , winning 71 % of that demographic in 2016 and just 64 % in 2020 .
Had Trump maintained his 2016 percentage of white men without a college @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national vote totals by 1.33 % .
With the caveat that this percentage would not be spread equally among every state , here is a breakdown of several competitive states : Given the overrepresentation of white males without college degrees in these states and the voting patterns tracked in exit polls at the state level , it appears that if Trump had merely held his 2016 national percentages among this demographic that he would have narrowly won Arizona , Pennsylvania and Wisconsin ( Georgia is less clear ) and today be plotting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a legal strategy .
Interestingly , Ryan Girdusky ran a simulation that closely matched the scenario of the election .
He projected an election map if Trump lost 3 % of the overall white vote but gained 10 % of the Latino and 5 % of the black vote .
His predicted outcome looked like this : Looking at election results from Michigan provides insight into Trump ’ s losses among white voters .
Trump lost ground throughout the state , including rural areas .
In counties in the western part of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton and Trump underperformed compared to 2016 .
Take the example of Kent County , home of Gerald Ford and the city of Grand Rapids , a growing metropolitan area which has typically been a Republican stronghold .
In 2016 , Trump carried it by 3.1 % , but in 2020 he lost by 6 % .
In Macomb County , home of the `` Reagan Democrat , '' Trump also ran behind his 2016 totals ( 11.5 % margin in 2016 vs. 8 % in 2020 ) .
Similarly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in counties that are predominantly white and those where most residents have no college degree .
In Pennsylvania , Biden ’ s largest tallies came from the dense population centers around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and their respective suburbs .
But Philadelphia County swung toward Trump by more than four percentage points compared with 2016 .
Meanwhile , Trump lost ground in counties that he won handily in 2016 including York ( 3.8 % shift ) , Lancaster ( 3.1 % shift ) , Westmoreland ( 3.1 % shift ) , Cumberland ( 6.8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % shift ) , although the president held an enormous rally there with nearly 60,000 participants .
Trump underperformed his 2016 percentage of the vote across the country despite surpassing or at least matching his 2016 totals with major demographic groups ( blacks , Hispanics , Evangelicals , white women , Mormons , and Jews ) except white men .
The question is why ?
Fraud is certainly one possibility , but the cheating would have necessarily been systematic , across scores of jurisdictions .
Did GOP voters turn against the President out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ normalcy ” ?
Were white voters turned off by Jared Kushner ’ s pandering to minorities ?
Was it Covid related ?
Or was it Trump 's failure to aggressively pursue and campaign on a populist , nationalist economic agenda—specifically on immigration , as VDARE.com repeatedly complained ?
In the first two years of Trump ’ s administration , with the GOP in complete control of the legislative branch , Trump had the opportunity to set a populist course and begin draining the “ swamp.
” Admittedly , there was opposition from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secure an infrastructure bill and turned over tax policy to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell .
The 2017 tax bill likely encouraged the offshoring of manufacturing and the administration did not follow through with the promise of taxing remittances to build a wall along the southern border .
Above all , he did not pass into law immigration cuts—let alone abolish Birthright Citizenship .
Trump did not tame the law enforcement and national security bureaucracies and in fact allowed them to dominate his presidency .
He surrounded himself with staff and cabinet department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yet still , Trump had a record of modest but real success .
Unemployment and inflation were low and wage growth for the working class rose faster than other groups [ Wage Growth Is Unequal — But Not in Way We ’ ve Come to Expect , by Josh Barro , NYMag.com , January 14 , 2020 ] .
Despite the intransigence of neoconservatives , tentative steps to withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan were underway and further U. S. wars were avoided .
Trump imposed significant tariffs on imports from China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada and Mexico—along with ending the upsurge in illegal immigration through Mexico—by wielding tariffs as an economic and political weapon .
He used his executive powers to start building a wall along the southern border , dramatically lowered refugee admissions and began controlling H1-B visas .
Despite significant opposition , he proved that immigration is not a force of nature beyond our control but responds to policy changes .
The number of immigrants ( legal and illegal ) grew much more slowly beginning in 2017 and as Ed Rubenstein has chronicled , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by immigrants and brought about a 14-month decline in the Immigrant Workforce Population .
And , belatedly , Trump instituted a temporary de facto anti-unemployment immigration moratorium .
All that changed with a virus that has killed nearly 250,000 Americans , terrified millions more and driven the economy over a cliff .
But the events of the last seven months—the virus , the quarantine , the economic slump , and the riots—also provided an opening to foment a populist and nationalist reaction .
The “ pandemic ” and the response to it have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The institutions and ideology of globalism have failed .
No one is turning to the World Health Organization , European Union or United Nations for answers .
The publics of Western nations have lost faith in global institutions .
They are prepared to accept alternative visions to move forward .
But in substance no one is offering it to them , least of all the oddly silent Trump Administration .
In a 1996 post-mortem of Pat Buchanan ’ s presidential campaign , Sam Francis argued that Buchanan failed because of a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his own radicalism.
” [ From Household to Nation The Middle American Populism of Pat Buchanan , Chronicles , March 1996 ] In his recent and very illuminating book The Stakes , Michael Anton offered a similar analysis of Trump : But instead of stymying the rioters and the raving iconoclasts , the Trump campaign talked endlessly about prison reform and Joe Biden ’ s support for the 1994 Crime Bill .
Rather than reining in Big Tech—or at the very least leaving Twitter publicly and moving to Gab—Trump issued vague and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cutbacks , rolling back Birthright Citizenship , getting a grip on the opioid epidemic and speaking to the anxieties of blue-collar whites , the campaign played up historically low unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics .
And in the face of shortages of key medical necessities manufactured in China , where were proposals to reinvigorate and revitalize American manufacturing or thoughtful discussions of the need for an industrial policy ?
Creating a political coalition that includes sympathetic minorities without abandoning the interests of the Historic American Nation requires a full-throated economic nationalism that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nationalism is the formula that can express the material interests and cultural values of Middle America and create solidarity among otherwise disparate groups .
It is only the path forward and the 2020 Presidential Election proves it .
In the end , it appears inarguable that Trump erred when he forsook the Sailer Strategy for the Kushner Strategy—or , as Takimag ’ s brilliant David Cole calls it , “ The Failer Strategy .
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The 2016 Presidential election results (remember them?) were a vindication of four people:
First, the incomparable Pat Buchanan, who ran for the presidency three times on an America First platform, championing the ideas that ultimately propelled the Trump campaign.
Buchanan was a prophet—a man of foresight, courage, and vision who loved his people and delivered a warning that went unheeded. Trump had the benefit of running in light of the damage and wreckage that Buchanan predicted.
But four years later, pending the outcome of legal challenges raising legitimate questions about irregularities, anomalies and possible election fraud, we sit on the precipice of a Joe Biden presidency.
Joe Biden! A man who is arguably senile, when not convinced he is really Neil Kinnock, who ran a McKinley-style campaign from his basement in Delaware and who plans to open America’s borders.
What happened?
Here I’m relying on Fox News/ Associated Press’s analyses of voting behavior, which can be contrasted with its 2016 exit poll data. I have to say, though, that the data is much-disputed and is definitely subject to revision. But given its methodology and sample size, the data produced by Fox/AP appear to me to be the most accurate for now.
Republicans have been crowing about their alleged success in expanding the party’s demographic base in the 2020 election. But the GOP’s advance among racial minorities was more than off-set by marginal but decisive decreases in the white vote.
Quite a few in the commentariat, including some who should know better, are claiming that Trump is creating a multi-racial working class party that threatens to undermine the Democratic Party. But they are not reckoning with the fact of Trump’s losses in the Rust Belt or the reasons for them:
1) Despite much chatter to the contrary, Donald Trump did not win a larger share of the black vote in 2020.
In both 2016 and 2020, according to Fox/AP, Trump won 8% of blacks respectively. Moreover, blacks were a smaller share of the electorate in 2020 (11%) than 2016 (12%).
2020
Elections 2020 | Fox News
2016
Black
Total 12%
Hillary Clinton 89%
Donald Trump 8%
Gary Johnson 2%
Jill Stein 1%
2) While Donald Trump did better in 2020 among Hispanics, they were a smaller share of the electorate.
Trump won 35% of Hispanics in 2020 vs. 28% in 2016. But as a share of votes cast, Hispanics declined from 11% in 2016 to 9% in 2020.
2020
2016
Hispanic/Latino
Total 11%
Hillary Clinton 66%
Donald Trump 28%
Gary Johnson 3%
Jill Stein 2%
3) Trump lost crucial support among white voters, especially working-class men.
Whites were a larger percentage of the overall votes cast in 2020 (74%) than 2016 (71%). Trump won 57% of the white vote in 2016 and 55% in 2020. (This is worse than it looks, because 4.6% voted for Third Parties in 2016, almost all white, vs. just 2% in 2020).
It was assumed by many that white women would turn en masse against the President, but that was not the case. In 2020, Trump matched his percentage from 2016 (52%) among White women—who were also a larger slice of the electorate in 2020 than 2016 (39% vs. 37%).
Meanwhile, white men were 34% of the electorate in 2016 and 36% in 2020. But Trump declined with this demographic, slipping from 62% in 2016 to 59% in 2020.
2020
2016
White women
Total 37%
Hillary Clinton 43%
Donald Trump 52%
Gary Johnson 3%
Jill Stein 1%
2016
White Men
Total 34%
Hillary Clinton 31%
Donald Trump 62%
Gary Johnson 4%
Jill Stein 1%
The decline among whites was more pronounced among the working class than college graduates. Among white college graduates, Trump dropped to 46% from his 2016 total of 48%. But he suffered a steeper decline among white men without a college degree, winning 71% of that demographic in 2016 and just 64% in 2020.
2020
2016
White college graduates
Total 37%
Hillary Clinton 45%
Donald Trump 48%
Gary Johnson 4%
Jill Stein 1%
2020
2016
White men non-college graduates
Total 16%
Hillary Clinton 23%
Donald Trump 71%
Gary Johnson 4%
Jill Stein 1%
Had Trump maintained his 2016 percentage of white men without a college degree, he would have increased his national vote totals by 1.33%.
With the caveat that this percentage would not be spread equally among every state, here is a breakdown of several competitive states:
Given the overrepresentation of white males without college degrees in these states and the voting patterns tracked in exit polls at the state level, it appears that if Trump had merely held his 2016 national percentages among this demographic that he would have narrowly won Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (Georgia is less clear) and today be plotting the contours of a second term rather than a legal strategy.
Current differences
Interestingly, Ryan Girdusky ran a simulation that closely matched the scenario of the election. He projected an election map if Trump lost 3% of the overall white vote but gained 10% of the Latino and 5% of the black vote. His predicted outcome looked like this:
Ryan Girdusky Tweet, September 16, 2020
Looking at election results from Michigan provides insight into Trump’s losses among white voters. Trump lost ground throughout the state, including rural areas. In counties in the western part of the state and even the Upper Peninsula, Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton and Trump underperformed compared to 2016.
Take the example of Kent County, home of Gerald Ford and the city of Grand Rapids, a growing metropolitan area which has typically been a Republican stronghold. In 2016, Trump carried it by 3.1%, but in 2020 he lost by 6%.
In Macomb County, home of the "Reagan Democrat," Trump also ran behind his 2016 totals (11.5% margin in 2016 vs. 8% in 2020).
Similarly, in Georgia Biden made solid gains in counties that are predominantly white and those where most residents have no college degree.
In Pennsylvania, Biden’s largest tallies came from the dense population centers around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and their respective suburbs. But Philadelphia County swung toward Trump by more than four percentage points compared with 2016.
Meanwhile, Trump lost ground in counties that he won handily in 2016 including York (3.8% shift), Lancaster (3.1% shift), Westmoreland (3.1% shift), Cumberland (6.8% shift) and Butler (3.6% shift), although the president held an enormous rally there with nearly 60,000 participants.
Trump underperformed his 2016 percentage of the vote across the country despite surpassing or at least matching his 2016 totals with major demographic groups (blacks, Hispanics, Evangelicals, white women, Mormons, and Jews) except white men.
The question is why? Fraud is certainly one possibility, but the cheating would have necessarily been systematic, across scores of jurisdictions.
Did GOP voters turn against the President out of sheer exhaustion or a desire for “normalcy”? Were white voters turned off by Jared Kushner’s pandering to minorities? Was it Covid related? Or was it Trump's failure to aggressively pursue and campaign on a populist, nationalist economic agenda—specifically on immigration, as VDARE.com repeatedly complained?
In the first two years of Trump’s administration, with the GOP in complete control of the legislative branch, Trump had the opportunity to set a populist course and begin draining the “swamp.” Admittedly, there was opposition from all corners. But Trump failed to secure an infrastructure bill and turned over tax policy to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. The 2017 tax bill likely encouraged the offshoring of manufacturing and the administration did not follow through with the promise of taxing remittances to build a wall along the southern border.
Above all, he did not pass into law immigration cuts—let alone abolish Birthright Citizenship.
Trump did not tame the law enforcement and national security bureaucracies and in fact allowed them to dominate his presidency. He surrounded himself with staff and cabinet department heads that actively subverted his agenda.
Yet still, Trump had a record of modest but real success. Unemployment and inflation were low and wage growth for the working class rose faster than other groups[Wage Growth Is Unequal — But Not in Way We’ve Come to Expect, by Josh Barro, NYMag.com, January 14, 2020]. Despite the intransigence of neoconservatives, tentative steps to withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan were underway and further U. S. wars were avoided.
Trump imposed significant tariffs on imports from China. He secured new trade deals with Canada and Mexico—along with ending the upsurge in illegal immigration through Mexico—by wielding tariffs as an economic and political weapon. He used his executive powers to start building a wall along the southern border, dramatically lowered refugee admissions and began controlling H1-B visas.
Despite significant opposition, he proved that immigration is not a force of nature beyond our control but responds to policy changes. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) grew much more slowly beginning in 2017 and as Ed Rubenstein has chronicled, Trump has reversed the displacement of American workers by immigrants and brought about a 14-month decline in the Immigrant Workforce Population. And, belatedly, Trump instituted a temporary de facto anti-unemployment immigration moratorium.
All that changed with a virus that has killed nearly 250,000 Americans, terrified millions more and driven the economy over a cliff.
But the events of the last seven months—the virus, the quarantine, the economic slump, and the riots—also provided an opening to foment a populist and nationalist reaction. The “pandemic” and the response to it have demonstrated that the emperor has no clothes. The institutions and ideology of globalism have failed. No one is turning to the World Health Organization, European Union or United Nations for answers.
The publics of Western nations have lost faith in global institutions. They are prepared to accept alternative visions to move forward.
But in substance no one is offering it to them, least of all the oddly silent Trump Administration.
In a 1996 post-mortem of Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaign, Sam Francis argued that Buchanan failed because of a “proclivity to draw back from the implications of his own radicalism.” [From Household to Nation The Middle American Populism of Pat Buchanan, Chronicles, March 1996]
In his recent and very illuminating book The Stakes, Michael Anton offered a similar analysis of Trump:
There’s little wrong with President Trump that more Trump couldn’t solve. More populism. More nationalism. More patriotism. More law and order. More full-throated advocacy for the neglected American people, for the working class, for the Rust Belt and rural America, for religious believers and law-abiding gun owners. More defense of free speech against tech and corporate censorship and suppression, more support for his voters when they or their interests are attacked. In short, more adherence to the 2016 agenda.
But instead of stymying the rioters and the raving iconoclasts, the Trump campaign talked endlessly about prison reform and Joe Biden’s support for the 1994 Crime Bill. Rather than reining in Big Tech—or at the very least leaving Twitter publicly and moving to Gab—Trump issued vague and empty threats. Instead of drastic immigration cutbacks, rolling back Birthright Citizenship, getting a grip on the opioid epidemic and speaking to the anxieties of blue-collar whites, the campaign played up historically low unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics. And in the face of shortages of key medical necessities manufactured in China, where were proposals to reinvigorate and revitalize American manufacturing or thoughtful discussions of the need for an industrial policy?
Creating a political coalition that includes sympathetic minorities without abandoning the interests of the Historic American Nation requires a full-throated economic nationalism that takes on a populist tint. Economic nationalism is the formula that can express the material interests and cultural values of Middle America and create solidarity among otherwise disparate groups. It is only the path forward and the 2020 Presidential Election proves it.
In the end, it appears inarguable that Trump erred when he forsook the Sailer Strategy for the Kushner Strategy—or, as Takimag’s brilliant David Cole calls it, “The Failer Strategy.”
Scot Olmstead [email him] writes from Middle America.


vdare--2020-11-18--Why President Trump Didn't Crush Biden In The White Vote: The Kushner Black Agenda

Would you like one reason , and a big one at that , why President Trump did n't crush Biden @ @ @ @ @ have ?
As Washington Watcher II has repeatedly observed , Trump talked too much about @ @ @ @ @ Scott Adams posed this question on Twitter last week : The link goes to a @ @ @ @ @ alleging algorithmic voter fraud .
But this answer was below it :

Would you like one reason, and a big one at that, why President Trump didn't crush Biden among whites as he should have?
As Washington Watcher II has repeatedly observed, Trump talked too much about helping blacks.
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams posed this question on Twitter last week:
Ever wonder how Trump allegedly lost support with while male voters while gaining support among minorities? Doesn’t seem possible, does it.
Ever wonder how Trump allegedly lost support with while male voters while gaining support among minorities? Doesn’t seem possible, does it. https://t.co/HMxiJA3IUd — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 11, 2020
The link goes to a deleted tweet by Michael Burry alleging algorithmic voter fraud.
But this answer was below it:
Me and my bedt [sic] friend are two white males who were huge supporters of Trump in 2016 and didn't vote in 2020. Got tired of him talking about "muh black unemployment" all the time.