Lots more good stuff with citations in the article, but this bit really ties it all together:
The right-wing obsession over racial demographics becomes obvious in the “pro-natalism” movement, which advocates for conservatives to have more children to take control of society. The mission of the movement is “to build an army of like-minded people, starting with their own children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal democracy,” according to a fascinating recent story in Politico.
For the right wing, pro-natalism means looking for every possible means to increase the white percentage of the nation’s population. Through this lens, it’s not hard to see why Republicans remain virulently anti-immigration and strictly opposed to abortion.
Those two issues may appear unrelated, but in fact Republican positions on both stem at least in part from white demographic fears. Republicans want to halt the rise in the nonwhite population by curbing immigration. At the same time, they hope their abortion bans will boost domestic birth rates — staving off white demographic decline. They also want to ban contraceptives and no-fault divorce, forcing women to stay in marriages and have more children.
The Republican Party’s white nationalism is often justified in religious terms, since much of this agenda designed to enhance white power stems from the party’s Christian fundamentalist base. Along with Protestant evangelicals, the Republican religious base now includes fundamentalist Catholics, who stridently oppose abortion.
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Huh, you don’t say. Racist?
/s (just in case)
Racism is a reason because the working class, or useful idiots from other classes, are abused and exploited by robber barons who need a scapegoat and distraction.
Most republicans polices have been and continue to be hostile towards the working class. So what’s a convenient way to distract from that? Oh hey, that other poor fuck exactly like you is the reason I am stealing from you.
There’s no war but class war.
It’s always “Immigrants stole your job” and never “The CEO hired an immigrant instead of you”.
and the politician gave them a special visa for it that the employer can boot them out with for any reason, so they can treat them worse and pay them less
More like, the ceo doesn’t pay a living wage to immigrants or non immigrants alike. Immigrants are not necessarily cheaper, fyi. American workers need to unionize, it’s ridiculous that there aren’t more unions.
That and there is just a huge amount of stupid lemmings that are dumb as rocks.
Everyone including the media paint a picture that’s it’s just Trump … it’s just his followers … it’s just a political party …
None of what they are doing or saying would be possible without the full support and financing of very wealthy and rich elites… and none of it would be possible without the support and sometimes encouragement, acceptance and justification of a very pliable media, who are all owned by the same wealthy and rich elites.
How’s the saying go? “There’s no war but class war?”
We reject all war except for class war is the sentiment.
Water is wet.
He gave someone for people to hate.
Transphobia is more publicly visible in his base.
That’s because many of them are old enough to remember a time when you were supposed to be quiet about your racism because you knew the rest of society would shame you for it.
Unfortunately, America has never reached the point where a majority of people felt shame about their transphobia, so in their minds it’s okay to be more open about that.
That’s a fair point!
We cannot allow them to take the term “pro-natalist” because it allows them to paint anybody who disagrees as “anti.“ Just like they can claim anybody who isn’t “pro life” is “anti-life.“ People need to stop giving them these PR wins.
“We’re for family values” = I am against families
“We’re for law and order” = I am against it
It forces us non-weirdos to introduce the nuance of what their terms actually mean which is a losing prospect.
Interesting thought. Do you have suggestions on how to counter nationalists seizing the label “pro-natalist”?
You don’t get to decide. Your oligarch controlled media do.
You can use an alternative term like “anti-choice” while reporting on them. You can also insist on defining the term whenever you use it. “Pro- natalists, who believe that unwilling women should be forced to give birth”, something like that.
Eugenicists, replacement theory advocates. Or just settle for bigots
We are anti-eugenics
If they want to stop non-whites from becoming the majority, then why oppose abortion and birth control? All the non-white people already here will have more kids too. Do they not understand that?
I think this every time it comes up. But maga logic never really works, there’s no point in looking for consistency.
Why does he insist on wearing such comically long ties?
Iirc long ties are supposed to make the wearer look slimmer, elongated, slinky or swift.
But the red makes it stick out too much, turning the intended positive effect into void.
His suits are comically large as well. Almost like he’s stuck in the past.
he is, in more ways than one
The Republican Party’s white nationalism is often justified in religious terms, since much of this agenda designed to enhance white power stems from the party’s Christian fundamentalist base.
Wait til they learn that Jesus wasn’t white
And nothing says “love thy neighbor” like racial supremacism.
Their white supremacist, conservative, hateful, supply-side Jesus is weird. I’m an atheist but I much prefer the hippie, anti-materialist, socialist, anti-establishment Jesus I was grew up hearing about.
Heh. 😀
They think an election was stolen and that climate change and covid are hoaxes, so I’m doubtful they are capable of believing that no matter what evidence was provided.
When someone believes those things, it’s probably not even the work of their conscious mind to just dismiss it out of hand when someone tells them Jesus wasn’t white.
Racism is not the reason Trump is popular, it’s part of why he’s not popular. Obviously, a premise of the article’s argument is that Trump is popular in the first place, which is demonstrably not true. He lost two popular votes against 2 candidates who were themselves already extremely unpopular. In fact he lost so badly that of the 12 major party candidates to run in the 21st century, he came in 10th and 11th, only beating out John McCain’s 2008 chaotic performance against the popular Obama. And according to some polls, he may give McCain a run for his money this year.
So we shouldn’t be asking why Trump is popular, we should be asking why he’s unpopular. I’d argue racism is no longer popular in the US, in fact there’s been majority support among white people for interracial marriage since 1995. Trump grew up and became popular in a much more racist era than today, and that harms his popularity.
Regardless of the popular vote, racism is why he has such a rabid cult following, and it’s why he won the Republican nomination.
I think what they may be trying to say is that the majority of Trump supporters are not the rabid followers. This is why they are so dangerous. The majority of his support is not the crazy people you see on TV. They are your friends, family and coworkers, your neighbors, people you know.
Trump is selling a solution to the political corruption that nearly EVERYONE is sick of. This is what makes him popular. The people voting for him will tolerate non-direct racism but they aren’t choosing that side because of it. What you hear about from the media is the crazy people that make good stories.
And yes, Trump brings along a con-crew with their own agenda who are just as corrupt as those that Trump complains about. They’ve been scheming long before Trump, he’s just the current tool.
“Pro-natalism” huh? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
He stoked the flames of racism because Obama won the election and built up a nice little cult out of that. Dude got clowned by Obama at a white house correspondence dinner and it hurt is feewings
I don’t like Trump or religion or other hardcore conservative stances. But I also don’t like the deep state, DEI, wars, etc.
Explain the deep state to me, please
