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If you want to know what the Trumpist Right is thinking, you must always read Steve Sailer. It's like looking directly into the mind of Stephen Miller.

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Most importantly, it shows how much white nationalism has been motivated by electoral concerns. The Judis-Teixeira thesis that Hispanic immigration (and high fertility) would lead to an invincible Democratic majority has panicked the Right into supporting soft ethnic cleansing.
Of course the Right is despicable, but I also think the Judis-Teixeira idea has done a lot of damage to the cause of the Left, and to American society in general. Neither immigration nor immigration restriction should ever be seen - or used - as an electioneering scheme.
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"Save the world" and "make the world a better place" are probably just things employers tell you to get you to work for cheap.
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There's more than one way to get meaning in life.
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But if you just raise the top rate without closing loopholes, you'll likely be disappointed.
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