Thread by @RichardBSpencer

We've had our daily freakout from the hall monitors over Tucker's latest comments. Apparently, he's endorsing "The Great Replacement" theory and leading to the rise of White Nationalism.

This is a typically hysterical and wrong take, and it's important to discuss why.

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1380309798957285376

Once upon a time, conservatives just talked about race, or, more accurately, Blacks. Then, with Reagan and Atwater, they used euphemisms like "forced busing," "welfare queens," and "Christian schools." Enter Tucker, and they're now talking about "voting rights."

Note that conservatives failed at every step of the way, even when they were talking openly about race (or, again, Blacks). Leftists can shriek about how Tucker's comments "lead to White Nationalism." The overwhelming factor, though, is the progressive dilution of the rhetoric.

In other words, Tucker isn't *leading* anywhere. He's just the latest stage in conservative failure, in which now the Right LARPs as mid-century Civil Rights advocates. Ten years on, we might learn about how "third-world immigrants" threaten the sanctity of gay marriage.

It's also worth asking whether Tucker and the "Great Replacement" Right are actually accurate in their doomsaying.

It's obviously more complicated.

Latino immigrants have long been 60/40 in voting for Democrats. But Donald Trump evidently won over a new Hispanic base. Voting 50/50—or even 60/40—for the GOP seems plausible in the foreseeable future. Latino-White intermarriage is the most popular "mixed marriage" in the U.S.

Meanwhile, elites have created a real-existing "replacement" of White males in their sphere. The majority of Americans attending Princeton, for instance, identify as POC. Mass media and Hollywood have already represented the America of "2050" on our screens.

Latinos, if anything, will act as a *retarding influence* on the this replacement at elite levels—which, again, has already happened. Whether this new elite is long for this world—whether it will be able to, literally and figuratively, reproduce itself—is an open question.

The dominant factor in the Republicans' woes is not Latinos, but professional- and managerial-class Whites shifting to the Democrats. Again, if anything, Latinos will have a retarding influence on this long-term trend, which preceded Trump.

Tucker, paleoconservatives, and "America First" people want to endlessly rage against Hispanics—or in Tucker's case "illegal immigrants"—as if this is really the fundamental issue. SMDH.