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Forgot about this after Kirk but a few weeks ago Sen. Eric Schmitt gave a real nasty speech at a rightwing conference, calling it “What is America?”

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/missouri-sen-eric-schmitt-openly-promoted-white-supremacism-in-a-public-speech/

Well, to him it’s the descendants of Christian pilgrims, English, Scots-Irish, and also conveniently Schmitt’s German ancestors get to be included, but that’s about it. He talks about this group trying to destroy America by increasing immigration, “Elites who rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere”, this kind of shit really is so fundamental to their worldview. They so desperately need there to be this villainous group of international schemers pulling the strings, engineering the destruction of America’s white Christian heritage…dog whistles getting louder and louder every year.

My ancestry includes some of these English and German settlers he slobbers over, as well as Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Russian, and the indigenous Hawaiians who didn’t ask to be forcibly integrated into Schmitt’s great Aryan empire, but we’re here now. If I’m confident about anything in this country it’s that we never have and never will be an ethnostate. They really want us to forget what’s written on that bronze plaque in the Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. They want us to forget when Abraham Lincoln said all men are created equal. I don’t normally civics-post like this but this kind of garbage activates my latent patriotism to oppose it.

Used to be you knew who the National Front wing of the party was, guys like former Iowa rep. Steve King, but now they’re everywhere. How thoroughly the ghost of Pat Buchanan defeated the Bush GOP. Following an election of unprecedented gains with non-white and immigrant voters, they move towards this blood and soil shit.

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