Jim Goad writing in Taki's Magazine
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Yesterday I saw Donald Trump speak live at a rally in
downtown Atlanta, and I stand here before God and man to report that not once
did he mention the topic of race.
(*SMIRK*)
Trump was greeted by a rapturous crowd that was almost
entirely white...
* AND YET...
More than half of his opening speakers were black.
* AND...
They didn’t make a point of being black - like so many
black people do these days in the name of, er, fighting “racism.”
(*APPLAUSE*)
Meanwhile the Democrats and liberals and progressives and
communists and Alinskyites never shut the frig up for a nanosecond about race,
all while accusing those who never talk about race of being racists.
Maybe I’d believe that their true motives were
anti-racist if they were to, oh, stop shitting on white people for half a
second.
We live in a society that is reputedly white supremacist,
yet if any white person is not openly apologetic for their skin color, they
instantly commit career and social harakiri. In this “white supremacist”
climate, you’re a racist simply if you don’t self-flagellate for being white. The
idea that we currently live in a white supremacist society is the biggest "Big
Lie" I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
On the other side of America’s two-party schism you have
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders openly and explicitly courting black and
Hispanic voters... yet this is magically never framed as racial pandering.
Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t make a peep about white
people, yet somehow he’s the Exalted Cyclops. The fact that white nationalists
love him as if he were a big bowl of vanilla ice cream with whipped topping and
marshmallow jimmies is mostly due to the fact the he refuses to bow down and
grovel before the Gods of Critical Race Theory.
To my knowledge Trump has never uttered a word implying
it’s great to be white; he simply doesn’t seem to feel a need to apologize for
it, either. He doesn’t even seem to comprehend why race might matter. But
modern American culture and taboos have tilted so lopsidedly in an anti-white
direction, merely refusing to feel guilty for being white is depicted as the
vilest and most violent form of racial bigotry imaginable.
I believe that race matters, but in Trump’s case I feel
it’s largely an intentional diversion on the part of his enemies. I’ve listened
to hours of Trump’s speeches and don’t ever recall him using the phrases “white
people” or “white voters” or “white Americans.” Nor do I ever recall him taking
a swipe at someone for his or her ethnicity — only their religion if it happens
to be Islam.
In his own odd way, Trump is even mildly PC. When he
criticizes China’s or Mexico’s trade policies, he’s always extraordinarily
careful to note that he loves Chinese people and Mexican people and that their leaders
are far smarter than ours. He even goes out of his way to say he has a “great
relationship with the blacks.” Again and again he says the people he truly
hates are the ones in charge of this country who are rapidly selling it
piece-by-piece to other countries. This billionaire’s focus is economic rather
than ethnic. Nearly every word out of his mouth suggests that he’s a die-hard economic
nationalist.
Trump extemporized about how Apple computers are made in
China and how Ford, Nabisco, and Carrier Air Conditioner are packing up and
leaving for Mexico. He also said that the only way to combat Chinese and
Mexican economic nationalism was to slap a 35% tax on any imports from
expatriate American corporations who try to peddle their foreign-made wares in
the USA. This theme — a tragic loss of American economic sovereignty — was a
primary motif back when he announced his candidacy, yet the press completely
glossed over this and fixated over one brief but - factually accurate statement
- that Mexico was sending rapists and criminals to America.
Despite the fact that Trump hammers on economic issues
and hardly ever makes a whisper about ethnic issues, the press seems content to
call him a bigot and a hater and every other scare word that whips most people
in line these days.
One might be forgiven for noticing that the media and the
leftists (as if there’s a substantive difference) that assail Trump hone in
entirely on race and completely gloss over Trump’s far more voluminous comments
about economic globalism and the outsourcing of America’s industrial base. They
don’t want to touch that issue with a ten-foot selfie stick.
Trump says that global trade policies have raped the USA
economically, and he’s right. But simply because he doesn’t make a habit of
blaming everything that’s wrong with the country on “racism,” Godwin’s Law is
invoked as if it were the Eleventh Commandment.
I’ve felt for years that all this witch-hunting and moral
hysteria over race is little more than a diversion and a deliberately sustained
form of PSYOP to terrify anyone about complaining over the fact their jobs are
either being shipped to foreign countries or handed to recent...immigrants who
are willing to work for less.
Before Trump’s speech, as some friends and I huddled
outside the Georgia World Congress Center in the rain peeping at the other
attendees in line — an endless array of Average Southern White Folks — a friend
said, “These are people who have absolutely no voice in politics or the media.”
Trump speaks to a maligned, mistreated, and disregarded
demographic that the elites of both parties view not as a constituency but as
an obstacle.
[And, yet,] even though this constituency is
majority-white, Trump is never the one who points this out - only his enemies
do.
The Trumpsters who have been awakened by The Trumpening
have been systematically beaten down and silenced into a sort of learned
helplessness. And then comes Trump speaking directly to them — but far more to
their economic anxieties than to their ethnic ones. Sure, they love Trump
because he represents a huge wet sloppy unapologetic fart in the face of all
the Cultural Revolution-style witch-hunting madness of the Obama years. But I
think they love him even more because he’s the first presidential candidate in
memory to speak directly to their completely legitimate economic anxieties.
The America of my childhood was much whiter, but it was
also much more prosperous.
My father grew up in the Great Depression and fought in
WWII, but even without a high-school diploma he owned a house outright when he
was my age and bought a new car every three years.
And... back in that oppressively patriarchal society...
he acquired all these things without my mom even having to work.
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