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March 23, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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John McCain Defended the Wrong America
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
Senator John McCain died on Saturday, and the media are prostrate with grief.
But they haven't missed a chance to attack President Trump for being insufficiently reverential.
He didn't keep the flag over the White House at half-mast for long enough.
Trump balks at half-staff flag tradition for McCain.
Observers outraged, says The Wrap.
With a quote in the subtitle, calling the president a pathetic, thin-skinned, self-centered, low-class, petty coward.
White House flags return to full staff less than 48 hours after McCain's death, complained The Hill.
Mediaite explained that Tom Brokaw tears into Trump for his response to McCain's passing.
Ignoring his death is a disgrace.
Well, of course, Trump didn't ignore his death, so you begin to understand why he calls the media the enemy of the people.
And there was much crowing when the president cracked and brought the flag back down.
These attacks on President Trump help explain why the media are in such a frenzy of adulation for John McCain.
He was one of the first and fiercest and most persistent never-Trumper Republicans, and that alone would have made him their darling.
And just as important, even in his deathbed message, he mouthed the lines that now determine whether you are a good American or a bad American.
He said, We are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil.
And he went on to say this:
"We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. McCain, but our country is already full of tribal rivalries.
It's only whites like you who talk about uniting under one flag.
I suppose you've already forgotten.
The desecration of your beloved flag in 2010, when your home state of Arizona passed an immigration control law known as SB 1070.
The tribe is already here, Mr. McCain, and they want their numbers to grow through immigration.
Don't forget your constituents who want to give Arizona back to Mexico, and the people who say, If you think I'm illegal because I'm a Mexican, learn the true history because I'm in my homeland.
That sounds a little like blood and soil to me.
And, of course, there is a tribe that sometimes considers itself more African than American.
Mr. McCain went on with his message.
We weaken our greatness when we hide behind walls rather than tear them down.
This is, of course, a clear dig at Donald Trump and ultimately at the very idea of a nation with borders.
Oddly, Mr. McCain sang a different tune when he was running for re-election to the Senate in 2010.
Here is one of his campaign videos.
Drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder.
We're outmanned.
Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.
Have we got the right plan?
Plan's perfect.
You bring troops, state, county, and local law enforcement together.
And complete the dang fins.
It'll work this time.
Senator, you're one of us.
I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
But once he was back in office, he betrayed the voters and joined the so-called Gang of Eight.
To pass a Senate bill to amnesty an estimated 11 million illegals.
Here he is yucking it up with Senator Schumer after the amnesty bill passed, which luckily died in the House.
He never gave up the fight for illegal immigrants.
Practically on his deathbed, he was prompting headlines like McCain rips Trump's family separation policy as an affront to American decency.
But back to his farewell message.
We weaken our greatness when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they've always been.
Well, his ideas are certainly a great force for change.
His ideals of a nation without walls or borders, his ideals about the meaninglessness of blood or soil are changing this country so profoundly his ancestors wouldn't even recognize it.
When John McCain was first elected to Congress in 1982, Arizona was 75% white.
The next year, in 1983, he opposed making Martin Luther King's birthday a federal holiday.
He has, of course, spent the rest of his career apologizing for that.
And because he is now on what our rulers like to call the right side of history, he has been forgiven.
As far as I can tell, every one of the gushing obituaries from the New York Times on down has passed over this king business in respectful silence.
As for Arizona, whites are now down to about 57% of the population, and mostly they're old.
Hispanics are the green bars, and whites are blue.
Over on the left, there are already more Hispanics than whites in ages 0 to 9. But old people are overwhelmingly white.
Since 2012, there have been more whites dying in Arizona than whites being born.
And whites could become a minority 15 years sooner than in the entire country, that is to say even before 2030.
John McCain must have died happy.
Americans aren't hiding behind a wall because we don't have one to hide behind.
Instead, we are hiding from the truth about race and the consequences of turning a once-great majority white country into just another part of the third world.
That may not have been the America John McCain thought he was defending when he flew a fighter in Vietnam, but that is the America he helped create.
That makes him the sweetheart of the media, but he was no friend of the real American nation.
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