"Don't be fooled by the Auntie Anne’s Pretzels (in every terminal!) and many global languages you’ll hear, this is sovereign territory under the rule of a serious government."
Not pictured: the Dallas-Fort Worth Department of Public Safety officer who declined to be photographed
("We don't allow photographs", and "turn around and go to your gate, right now")
Trump knows better than to adopt a strongly worded and high-attack surface area position
People who loathe social conservatives but are excited for an end to “wokeism” (like Hanania) read this as an end to social conservatism, but Trump is how you get Gorsuch + Kavanaugh + ACB
I do not think Trump is a social conservative and I think social conservatives know Trump is not a social conservative.
Roe v. Wade did get overturned because of a President going to prayer breakfasts and speaking about the Holy Spirit and the like;
The best results for social conservatism—in the modern era—did not come from Reagan, did not come from Bush, and certainly did not come from Romney or Pence.
They came from this guy, who gave permission to—earmuffs, social cons—a sexualized, irreligious, bombastic country;
You need to 10x yours and your peers’ wealth. You need to become organized, politically undeniable, and popular. You have to be in a position of property ownership and political sway that you can influence the State or meaningfully challenge it.
You should get to where you can give orders to uniformed soldiers of the existing State, or a challenger to it, to simply resolve these problems.
I have previously offered my thoughts on how we should conceive of, and measure the success of, social and institutional alternatives to the mainstream culture and educational regimes:
Here is another schematic, which I hope captures what I am talking about in the concept above. You may notice these ideas actually link up in a kind of 'grand cycle', where one generation's production generatively produces another generation. We may call this "reproduction":
We'll hear coping just like after the "red wave" failed in 2022 or the "stop the steal" coping in 2020 - MAGA has its head in the sand about THREE things:
1. Trump won in 2016 with tiny margins of victory in Michigina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania - among non-college educated (working but often middle class) exurban whites: a lot of people who were union workers or would have been non-voters showed up.
But did Trump 'win whites'?
Trump actually won fewer (slightly; 1% less) white voters than Mitt Romney got in 2012.
Did you know that? Among whom do you think Trump did worse on net? It's important he picked up voters in the right electoral college *shape* to win, but also that he did overall lose whites.
They could openly admit firing only white people in the name of “retention equity”
The only way it ever stops is if white people politically organize to pursue their material self-interest *as* white people, which is literal white nationalism, which you’d reject
What do all of these new prominent right wingers expect? Why is anyone surprised about this? What do they think opposition to the Civil Rights Act was about? Why do they think the Southern states fought integration, or why middle America opposed forced bussing? Etc, etc, etc.
Explicit penalization for being white is routine in America.
If you want that to stop, @libsoftiktok , then you have to commit to white nationalism, you have to commit to the political pursuit of white self-interest.