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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-america-first-caucusRacism
Republicans Are Basically Starting a White Supremacist Caucus
They want to preserve uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions, like discrimination against non-white people.
By Bess Levin
April 16, 2021
As the Republican Party has made abundantly clear over the last number of years, one of its main platforms is racism. Obviously, in 2021, its hard to just come out and say, Whites Only, Please, though one group of GOP lawmakers has come extremely close, and by close we mean that it presumably wont be long before they start doing team-building exercises that involve burning crosses and sporting white hoods around the Capitol.
Punchbowl News reports that an emerging America First Caucus linked to representatives Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar has been circulating material championing a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions. What are Anglo-Saxon traditions? For starters, they apparently involve demonizing immigrants. As the AFC writes:
History has shown that societal trust and political unity are threatened when foreign citizens are imported en-masse into a country, particularly without institutional support for assimilation and an expansive welfare state to bail them out should they fail to contribute positively to the country. While certain economic and financial interest groups benefit immensely from mass immigration, legal as well as illegal, and the aggregate output of the country increases, the reality of large segments of our society as well as the long-term existential future of America as a unique country with a unique culture and a unique identity being put at unnecessary risk is something our leaders can afford to ignore no longer.
As such, Americas legal immigration system should be curtailed to those that can contribute not only economically, but have demonstrated respect for this nations culture and rule of law.
As such, Americas legal immigration system should be curtailed to those that can contribute not only economically, but have demonstrated respect for this nations culture and rule of law.
What, exactly, it means to demonstrate respect for this nations culture is unclear, but were pretty sure that line is code for Speak English, motherfucker, which wed bet money Greene has screamed at more than one Uber driver.
Naturally, theres a lot of other talk about immigrants stealing jobs from Americansa racist lie conservatives like to tell their constituentsas well as the suggestion that all immigrants are criminals, despite the fact that native-born Americans are statistically more likely to commit crimes. Nevertheless, the group insists that we cannot tarnish [our countrys greatness] by rewarding those who failed to follow our laws at the expense of those who have, which is why amnesty must be rejected in all forms. Additionally, we must abolish unnaturalized birthright citizenship, which actively encourages hostile interests to undermine the legitimacy of democratic self-governance by engaging in subversive birth tourism and chain migration. Chain migration, you may recall, is how former first lady Melania Trumps parents were able to become U.S. citizens.
Elsewhere, the AFC suggests that teaching children about things like racism is progressive indoctrination that has worked to actively undermine pride in Americas great history and is actively hostile to the civic and cultural assimilation necessary for a strong nation. (We assume an acceptable curriculum would involve teaching kids that African people wanted to get on those ships, and that Native Americans dont actually have a claim to the land that was stolen from them.) In the memos section on infrastructure, the group writes that The America First Caucus will work towards an infrastructure that reflects the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture, whereby public infrastructure must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful, befitting a world power and source of freedom. The AFC is unsurprisingly extremely concerned about election fraud, and is in support of nationwide systemic electoral reform, i.e. disenfranchising Black people.
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Republicans Are Basically Starting a White Supremacist Caucus (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2021
OP
The Republican Party will split. The racism will go one way. The anti-taxers the other.
applegrove
Apr 2021
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applegrove
(118,462 posts)1. The Republican Party will split. The racism will go one way. The anti-taxers the other.
msongs
(67,347 posts)2. one wonders what era of anglo-saxism are they modeling? its not a monolithic culture
and do they allow vikings mixing in, or the post 1066 french influences (pork vs pig)
and....how bout them druids?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)3. Fucking White Supremacists.
We have to be better than this.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)5. That's all they've got
They have no other agenda or plan to fix anything in our country. Their only solidifying dynamic is hatred of others.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)6. what is the "expansive welfare state" they speak of?
Certainly can't be the USA.
sop
(10,090 posts)7. Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar? Consider the source.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,148 posts)8. The "America First Caucus" title is a little cumbersome. I suggest:
PortTack
(32,691 posts)9. With idiots like margarine leading the pack...really not that worried