In his farewell speech, Joe Biden raged against the "tech-industrial complex."

That "complex" is real. But it's extremely left-wing.

There's a revolving door between Big Tech and the Democratic Party.

They're not just allies—they're often literally run by the same people. 🧵 There are a number of high-profile renegade tech titans (i.e., Elon Musk) who are "on the right." Obviously, that's who Biden was talking about in his speech.

But they're exceptions to the rule. Writ large, the tech industry is an extension of the institutional Left.

Mass deportations aren't the only way to send immigrants home.

With the right incentives, some will leave on their own.

"Voluntary remigration" has worked in Europe. It can work in America, too.

A quick thread. (1/9) Obviously, it should go without saying that any successful large-scale repatriation effort will require mass deportations.

We've done that before, too—and we can (and must) do it again.

I wrote a thread about this yesterday. (2/9)

https://x.com/njhochman/status/1879248894472925195

In 1954, 750 Border Patrol agents deported 1.1 million illegals in the space of a few months.

Today, we have 21,000 Border Patrol agents—and far more advanced technology.

Mass deportations are reasonable, necessary and possible. We've done it before—and we can do it again. 🧵


Trump wants the largest deportation force in history. His critics say that's too costly, complicated and cruel.

They're wrong. We should start making that argument now. Support for deportations is at record highs—but once they start, the media is going to try to change that.

It really is remarkable how quickly the illusions of modern liberalism evaporate, once the social order collapses.

The California fires started on Tuesday. Within literal hours, the looting began. "Groups of men" were pulling up to homes en masse—by the hundreds, according to some eyewitnesses—in cars and scooters, across Los Angeles. Wherever the fires burned, they appeared.

This was their first instinct—their primal reflex—in the Hobbesian state of nature. Others secured the safety of family and friends, helped neighbors evacuate, even volunteered to aid affected communities. But not the looters. The very instant they were no longer constrained by the law, they reverted to violent anarchism.

Civilization does not live equally within everyone. For some, it's an external imposition. It's only the threat of brute force—the state's "monopoly on the legitimate use of violence"—that keeps them within the confines of the social contract. Once that's lifted, these distinctions are immediately laid bare.

The truth is that there are simply people who are antisocial by nature, and their capacity for living in an advanced society is made possible only by a vigilant law. This has been true in every place and time, and it remains true today, as uncomfortable as it may be to our modern sensitivities. The tragedy in California is a testament to that.


Liberal anthropology holds the opposite. It's "environmentalist"—not the popular meaning (i.e., caring about climate change), but in the sense of believing that humans are products of their environment, rather than their innate natures. "Born free, but everywhere in chains," etc.

It's not just Britain, by the way. This is happening all across the West.

It's tough to measure immigrant crime in the U.S., because very few states track immigration status in their criminal justice system.

But Europe does. And the numbers are genuinely incredible. 🧵 Take Germany, for example—the country with the largest share of refugees in Europe.

Foreigners are just 12% of the German population. But they account for 67% of gang rape suspects.

Afghans alone are 70 TIMES more likely to be involved in gang rapes than Germans.

It's true — the mainstream media did cover the grooming gangs.

But in Britain, that coverage amounted to one of the most extraordinary mass-scale gaslighting exercises in the history of the modern press.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1875980745438822618

The authorities were so committed to denying that any one group was to blame for this behavior—and so determined to smear anyone who suggested otherwise—that people's "fear of being seen as racist" actually "hindered the detection of and intervention in abuse."

Trump's offer to buy Greenland was treated as a tongue-in-cheek joke by friends and foes alike. But it was never as crazy as his critics claimed.

This week, it became a real political possibility.

That doesn't mean it's a sure bet.

But it could—and should—actually happen. 🧵 Back in 2019, when Trump first proposed to buy Greenland, the Prime Minister of Denmark—which currently owns Greenland—called it "absurd."

This week, Greenland announced their intent to pursue independence from Denmark. The PM says the process has "already begun."

This guy is from the reddest congressional district in North Carolina.

Just an unbelievable betrayal.

https://twitter.com/America_2100/status/1846571872726778260

This is a serious—even existential—problem in red America.

Any conservative who's done work at the state level knows that the deep-red states often have the most egregiously liberal Republicans. This is something @RMConservative talks about a lot:

https://x.com/RMConservative/status/1844004946586583373

Charleroi, PA is a working-class town of just over 4,000 people. In the past two years, it's been flooded by thousands of Haitian immigrants.

We spent a week on the ground there. The town is completely overwhelmed.

I wrote about the crisis for @im_1776
im1776.com/2024/10/01/cha… Nestled in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley—about 30 miles from Pittsburgh—Charleroi is a poor, primarily white working-class community.

Less than 18% of the residents have a bachelor’s degree, and the median household income is less than $45,000 a year.

The Guardian's Jason Wilson just wrote a hit piece about me and @America_2100.

Just to give you a sense of how sloppy it was: It's only been up since this morning, but they’ve already had to issue two corrections.

These are the questions he emailed me yesterday. Beyond parody: The hit was supposed to be about our reporting in Charleroi, Pennsylvania—where we've spent the past week, on the ground, reporting on the consequences of a flood of Haitian immigrants into the small working-class town. (See below).

https://x.com/America_2100/status/1836810710476595326

This how every single argument for mass immigration goes.

Step 1: "Oh, you have concerns about [X group] coming into your country? Well, here's one person from that group who's good. What do you think of that, huh? Do you hate this person, too??" [when presented with evidence that said person isn't representative of said group writ large]

Step 2: Actually, all those bad things you just mentioned are America's fault. And anyways, it's good for them to come here. I don't have to explain why. It just is.

Seeing lots of stories like this on the local Springfield social media pages.

https://twitter.com/America_2100/status/1832525922827956666

I wrote this, on the topic of Haitian immigration, back in March:

"That’s the double-edged sword of 'assimilation': The people become more like their adopted home, but their adopted home also becomes more like them."

https://x.com/njhochman/status/1767590590642876822

One of the equally admirable and frustrating things about Americans is how open-minded they are. Even when their town is literally getting invaded by Haitians, their first instinct is to try to patiently explain to the invaders why they need to behave themselves. Imagine the Romans meeting the barbarians at the gates and going, "I have read about some of your countries and it was scary. I understand why you left. But there's a huge cultural difference. So if you want to be part of this great city then you need to understand our culture."

Europe's insane speech laws—whereby just uttering forbidden phrases are often grounds for criminal prosecution—undermine the entire story that Western liberal democracy tells about itself. If this was happening in an enemy nation, we'd be sanctioning them for human rights abuses.

Well, we probably wouldn't sanction them for persecuting people who use "Nazi phrases," specifically, because "we"—i.e., the people who run our foreign policy—approve of wielding state power to crush the so-called "far right." But the speech laws in principle would be condemned.

If Kamala Harris wins, her persecution of political enemies may well end up dwarfing Biden's. I'm not sure that the miraculous restoration of free speech on this website would survive. Elon himself would almost certainly be subjected to coordinated, heavy harassment and lawfare. My view is, this alone is reason enough to vote for Trump. Many have noted that free speech on the internet is one of the most important issues of our time; the struggle for control of our future, to a substantial extent, hinges on the struggle for control of the online world.

The Juneteenth federal holiday emerged alongside the 1619 Project, Black Lives Matter, and critical race theory. Its purpose was clear from the start.

Conservatives who think they can celebrate it for "different, better" reasons are being taken for a ride.spectator.org/against-junete… Until it became a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth was a largely obscure regional affair. As @realJeremyCarl pointed out in this thread, Biden never mentioned it until he was running for president—and 60% of Americans knew "little to nothing" about it.

https://x.com/realJeremyCarl/status/1803450985970303319

The same thing is true on gay marriage.

From 2021 to 2023, Gen Z's support for gay marriage dropped by double digits, even as support increased in every other generation.

Zoomers—specifically Zoomer boys—are going to be much more right-wing than a lot of people expect. The other thing is, the overall Gen Z numbers are almost certainly concealing a far more drastic rightwards shift among boys.

The unprecedented ideological gender gap within Gen Z is an international phenomenon. This is from an Ipsos survey across 26 countries a few months ago:

I think about this post a lot.

So many of the Right's failures have come from its inability to grasp this essential truth: Today's Left is conservative. Liberals are devoted to protecting the established order. The Right is (or should be) seeking to overturn and transform it. The “traditional American values” in question — or at least, the very specific versions of them that Ian is referring to — are only “traditional” if you think the country began in 1960. But other than that, no notes

The assault on America has very little to do with abstract "principles." It is a very real war against a very real nation and people. To suggest otherwise is to reduce our cold civil war to a theoretical classroom debate. @amspectator
spectator.org/america-is-not… As @NateAFischer pointed out, America's original constitutional architecture crumbled long ago. Today, much of what is often mistaken for the Constitution of 1787 is actually the constitution of the post-1960s civil rights regime. Per Chris Caldwell:

https://x.com/NateAFischer/status/1792259631395332472

The British Conservatives rode the coattails of Brexit to historic majorities, and then promptly presided over the highest immigration levels in their small island nation's history.

42% of the U.K.'s total foreign-born population came in after 2010 — all under Conservative rule. As I noted in this column, all signs point to an extinction event for the Tories in this year's election — almost entirely because of this issue.

It’s difficult to think of another time in recent history when an electoral wipeout was more richly deserved.

https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1788420317519479239

Once, when I was in college, three black kids showed up demanding to be let in to a private, invite-only party at the hockey house. When they were turned away, they dragged the hockey team in front of a makeshift student tribunal and forced them to apologize for their racism: It was one of the more surreal moments in my college experience: Standing in a crowded room of a hundred kids — the hockey guys forced to sit in chairs in the middle — I felt like I was the only person in the world who hadn't completely lost their mind.
nationalreview.com/2022/02/the-la…