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Jan. 9, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The 2022 Midterm Elections. What They Mean For Us.
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Peter Brimelow is a friend of many years, very much a stalwart of our movement.
I believe he has been the impresario and majordomo of VDR for 22 years now.
And insofar as VDR is fortified by impregnable walls in West Virginia, I suspect it'll be good for another hundred years.
We're counting on that.
Now, staunch as Peter Brimlow is, I must tell you that there are deep political differences between him and myself.
And I will illustrate this by quoting to you from our Wikipedia entries.
My Wikipedia entry states right in the first sentence, Jared Taylor is a white supremacist.
In Peter, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
In Peter Brimelow's case, you have to get to the second sentence.
And there it says he is the founder of a website that is merely associated with white supremacy.
Sounds like weak stuff, Peter.
We have to have some fun with this white supremacy ballooning.
In any case, it's a great pleasure to have you here with us today.
And Peter Brimbelow will speak to us about the midterms, what they mean for us.
Please welcome Peter Bumbo.
I've been brief.
Thank you, Jared.
And thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm delighted to be here and I really have to congratulate Jared and his crew and their heroic struggle against the state of Tennessee to a legal struggle in which they ultimately prevailed.
This question of deplatforming, indirect deplatforming through the state's alliance with the left and its refusal to protect us is a huge issue that we're all having to face.
I'd also like to thank Roger for running over and thus giving me more time to think about what I had to say.
I actually have good news today.
The New York Times, actually I think it was yesterday, carries one of its repertorials, which is this new type of journalism that developed, which looks like it's factual but is actually opinion.
And it's called Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream.
And it says threats of violence are becoming commonplace among a significant segment of the Republican Party.
Now, of course, we all know that this is hogwash.
Not just a threat, but the actuality of violence in this country comes from the left.
That's why the congressional baseball team was shot up.
That's why America burned in 2020 and Trump supporters were murdered in the streets.
And that's why we have those nice young men outside, armed to the teeth.
They're not trying to keep us in.
to try to keep them out.
But the good news is that the New York Times in this case is not talking about us.
It's talking about Josh Mandel, who is a former state treasurer of Ohio and he's a Senate candidate.
He apparently said, and he's a Holocaust survivor, that if the Gestapo comes for you, you know what to do.
That's a threat to violence.
And they're talking about, of all people, Charlie Kirk of TPUSA.
He was actually asked about when does it get violent.
And he instantly said, I must disavow that question.
But they said, he went on to discuss circumstances in which violence could be used.
And that's all it takes.
Unfortunately, of course, the ruling class actually believes this stuff.
They're saying this because they are really planning to put dissenters in gulags.
But we're not going to be alone.
We'll have Mitch McConnell with us.
They called Mitch McConnell, who courageously refused to comment.
Notice that they didn't call Jared Taylor.
At least I don't think they did the Jared.
No, they didn't.
When Jared and I started talking about my presentation here this year, it was a dark moment.
The 2020 election had been fortified in the immortal words of Time magazine's Molly Ball.
Trump was no longer president, and the Biden administration was immediately launching on what we call going the full miracle, in other words, allowing as many third worlders in as possible.
Something we have been warning about here since 2015, when we said Clinton would do it if she was elected.
And also, of course, the ruling class was on the warpath about the mostly peaceful protest on January 6th.
The FBI was conducting garland raids to parallel the famous Palmer raids against communists in 1990 and 1920, with the difference, of course, that the communists were guilty.
And Garland was setting up what John Derbyshire has rightly called the Garland Archipelago, unprecedented incarceration of what are, in effect, political prisoners under atrocious conditions.
Now, as it happens, neither American Renaissance nor VDare.com was involved in the most peaceful protest on January 6th.
We did have a video crew there.
And we made a video about how the lying press would have reported it if Trump had been a Democrat, which I strongly recommend to you.
It's on BitChute and on Gab TV.
But of course, Jared and I knew from bitter experience that not being involved in the hoax will be no protection against a regime.
Moral panic, any more than not being involved in the Unite the Right rally in 2018 was, protection.
So anyway, we settle on this title, what the 22 midterm elections could mean for us.
And the answer is, they could mean a lot.
When I spoke here in 2015, I said that, which was the first I've ever spoken for American Renaissance, I said that about the immigration issue, which appeared then to be moribund, that all it would take to get into political debate was one speech.
One spark could start the conflagration.
And that was before Trump declared for president.
So all it really took was one soundbite about Mexico not sending its best.
Trump goes to the head of the pinion poles and he never looks back.
That's how powerful the immigration issue is.
Now, the next year, in 2016, before Trump was elected, I said here that he could very well be elected, and obviously I was right about that, and that it would only take one election.
What I meant by that was once the Republican consultant class realised that he could win on this issue, they would start running on it.
Now, obviously I was wrong about that, because Trump was wrong about it.
He simply didn't run on immigration in 2020, even though he'd actually achieved a brief moratorium with some help from the COVID epidemic.
And even though he or somebody had erected what the immigration lawyers kvetched was an invisible wall against illegal and some legal immigration via regulatory changes, immigration was extremely low in 2020.
And the immigrant workforce population actually started to fall.
Significantly, right through the year.
But of course, there was no legislation passed, nothing statutory.
So it could all be reversed.
And it has been reversed.
The columnist Michael Barone, who's one of the very few cases of an immigration enthusiast who's seen the light, said it was about the only mainstream media commentator to note that the paradox that Trump's immigration and trade policies had produced income gains for lower wage workers,
something, he said, something an administration of both parties have failed to achieve for a generation, but that amazingly Trump wasn't running on it.
In fact, Trump...
Completely gave up on reducing legal immigration about midway through his administration.
That's why he had that famous row with Ann Coulter in 2017, which leaked because they were both shouting at each other so hard that the secretaries could hear it outside the Oval Office.
She complained that he wasn't prioritizing immigration and that he was prioritizing tax cuts, a sign, really, that Trump is fundamentally just a moderate Republican.
In 2017, he actually endorsed Senator Cotton's Rays Act, which would have cut legal immigration by half.
But subsequently, he told New York Times reporters in their book, I think it's called Border Wars, for an interview he gave, that he just didn't realise that bill would actually cut legal immigration.
He thought it was about illegal immigration.
Of course, it's unbelievable, but it is Trump.
That's how he is.
And he couldn't tell it from the mainstream media, which was carrying on as if it was Calvin Coolidge, just past the 1924 immigration cutoff.
And that paradox probably helped him with his base.
He just didn't deserve it.
I forced my colleague James Fulford, who's here today, doing card tricks at the back of the room, as usual, to transcribe Trump's speeches when he gives them at his rallies, to see if he said anything about illegal immigration,
because he knows the borders are a hot issue, but he still never talks about legal immigration.
I blame Jared.
I mean Jared Kushner.
What this means, by the way, that somebody, i.e.
DeSantis, could easily get around Trump's right right now just by mentioning the term immigration moratorium.
That would cause a firestorm just like Trump's remarks about Mexico did.
So it didn't look like a year ago, like the...
The party was going to bounce back any time soon, but he has in recent elections.
In fact, current polling after the Virginia race suggests that the odds are 3-1 or 4-1 that the GOP will control both the House and the Senate after the midterm elections.
We sometimes forget what a tremendous release of ozone it is to win an election.
An election can change everything.
This works both ways, by the way.
I have a very good friend who's been a close friend of mine for 30 years now, and I've worked with him both at Forbes and at Vidair, and he's a supporter of Vidair, who found himself attending the Women's March on Washington after the...
After Trump's inauguration.
Because his wife had forced him to go.
Because everybody in their synagogue was going.
And it was actually very useful.
He wrote something for me on it.
He said there was absolutely no security or whatever.
It was obvious to anybody, everybody, that there was absolutely no threat.
There were barriers and things.
This is a complete contrast to the Trump inauguration, which is absolutely paralysed by the security.
That's why they didn't fill the bleachers in front of the White House.
You couldn't get in.
Anyway, so that's very useful.
What it tells us, of course, is the threat is not from the right, it's from the left.
And everybody knows that.
So I have here a wish list of things that could be done when the Republicans get control of the legislative branch.
Of course, it would have been better if they'd done it when they had control of the executive branch, but we'll take it.
And for those of you who say this is politically impossible, these proposals are politically impossible, I have two words.
Gay marriage.
The first and most important thing is that the Republicans should immediately move to impeach both Biden and Harris for treason, for dereliction of the duty.
Thank you.
On the board, it can be made technical, whether they're not enforcing certain laws, or you could just flat out say it's treason, because the Supreme Court decisions are that treason don't literally have to mean levying war.
The beauty of this thing, that they're hitting them both, is that the Speaker of the House, the new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, would then become President.
I mean, I can think of better Presidents, but it's something.
And of course, you know, people will say, well, they'll never get 60 senators to vote for that.
Well, my position is let's try it and see.
Let's see how these Democrats in marginal states want to defend what Biden has done on the border.
First of all, an impeachment process will paralyze the government, as it did under Trump.
But the second, it's a very important moral and political statement.
Most people don't realise how bad the immigration situation is, how crazy the Democrats are.
You know, recently they had a vote.
They were voting on this budget...
The budget reconciliation bill, the Bill Barth-Bath thing, which included amnesty.
And the Republicans and the Justice Committee tried to at least put some bounds on this amnesty.
But I say, well, maybe we shouldn't amnesty people who are convicted child molesters.
Democrats wouldn't go for that.
They said, what about people who've had nine or more convictions for drunk driving?
They wouldn't go back for that either.
They're nuts, and the process of impeachment will show how nuts they are.
The second and almost as important point is to end birthright citizenship.
It can be done by statute, it can be done by constitutional amendment.
APPLAUSE Thank you.
I don't think President McCarthy would veto it, but President Biden, if he's still, or President Harris might.
But that doesn't matter.
Make them vote on it.
Birthright citizenship is extremely unpopular when people realise what's going on.
And the great advantage of birthright citizenship is that it is in fact an internal fence.
It obviates the political incentive to enable illegal immigration.
It means that we'll have a large community of people in the country who are born in the country but are not citizens and therefore can't vote.
And that's just great.
We don't want them voting.
In fact, I would still go further.
I think it ought to be retroactive.
Anybody who came in at any point beyond a certain point...
You know, maybe 1980 or something, since the last amnesty, who's the child of an illegal alien, should be stripped of citizenship.
Why not?
I have a dream.
The Indians are actually already doing this.
They have a problem on the border with Bangladesh because there's a serious illegal immigrant problem.
There. And some of them have been there for a couple of generations.
So their response to this is to find them and throw them and strip them of citizenship.
And they've been doing this for two or three years now.
So, you know, diversity is strength.
I think we should learn from the Indians.
Where's Neil Kumar?
Learn from the Indians.
You know, one thing about immigration that people get wrong is it doesn't mean no immigration.
It means no net immigration.
We think that about two to three hundred thousand people leave the U.S. every year.
So two or three hundred thousand could come in and that would be no net immigration.
And that would take care of hardship cases and Americans marrying foreign spouses and that kind of thing.
Now the ironic thing is that although Trump didn't succeed in...
In passing any laws on immigration.
There was a very good bill.
And the more I looked at it, the more I realized how excellent it was.
The good latter bill, which failed in the House in 2018.
Jim Jordan, the head of the Freedom Caucus, has just written a book about that.
It's just about to come out.
And he blames Paul Ryan.
He says Paul Ryan just systematically sabotaged any kind of immigration reform because he's a Chamber of Commerce first.
That bill, over time, would have reduced immigration to well below half a million a year.
So it's almost getting into moratorium territory.
It had a lot of other interesting features as well.
And I think that, to the extent that people are allowed in the country...
They should be frankly focused on whites.
I mean, Senator Kennedy promised us that the 1965 Act was not going to alter the racial balance.
So let's take him at his word.
Another point that the Congress could deal with is I personally am fed up with all this whining about Puerto Rico and D.C. and how they should be states.
So my solution is expel Puerto Rico and merge D.C. with Maryland.
And let the Western panhandle join West Virginia.
Get this question off the table, because if the Democrats get enough power, they will create new states to try and get around the Senate.
You know, there's precedent for that, by the way.
You know, the Czechs got fed up with the Slovaks after the fall of the Soviet Union and threw the Slovaks out.
They're now an independent state and actually doing well.
And the same is true in Malaysia.
The Malaysians got fed up with the Chinese in Singapore, so they threw them out unilaterally.
And they're doing well.
So, good luck to Federico as an independent state.
A couple of other minor points.
We should get out of the refugee statute and the asylum.
There's a refugee statute which should be repealed.
There's an asylum agreement that the Americans have stupidly got into that they should now get out of.
And I find, of course, we should start getting serious a new Operation Wetback.
Operation Wetback deported.
Three million people left in the first years of the Eisenhower administration.
Only a couple hundred thousand were actually deported.
The rest just got the message.
Let's get serious about doing this again.
I have various sort of minor things that I like to do, such as extirpating affirmative action and defunding the FBI.
But they can wait.
We've got plenty of time to get around to that.
The great thing about the immigration issue, which of course is our focus at Vidar, is that it's a problem and a solution.
If you can stop the drift of the white population, which is to say the American population, into a minority status, you are going to assure the survival and success of freedom in this country.
Last year, when I was preoccupied with something else, our friend Ron Owners wrote a long article denouncing the immigration issue and saying that we should really focus on...
Immigrants are all nice people, and we should really focus on leftists and militant blacks.
Now, I didn't get around to respond to this for various reasons, but the definitive response was written by David Cole, who may be asleep because he came in from California.
Is he in the room?
I think he gave a definitive response.
Cole said that, yes, of course, the left and militant blacks are a problem.
But the problem, particularly with the blacks, is we're stuck with them.
We're stuck with each other, American blacks and American whites.
But we don't have to import the third world.
And that's what we're doing.
Now, one of the advantages of being so damn old is that everything comes around again.
When I was...
One of them was inflation.
In the early 1970s, I was a young financial journalist and I attended a lot of meetings where investment professionals tried to figure out what inflation meant.
It wasn't clear to people then, it literally wasn't clear to them that, for example, owning a house is an inflation hedge because a new house has to be built and replacement costs are very high because of inflation.
So your old house holds its value.
Whereas being out of debt, which they call leverage, was not a good thing to do in a period of inflation.
That was particularly interesting news to me because my parents, who were children of the Depression, spent a lot of time and money paying off their mortgage, which, of course, was exactly the wrong thing to do in the era of inflation.
I remember a speaker pointing out that the then-current inflation was actually lower than the great inflations of the past, for example, the 1920s or the various points of the 19th century.
We just hadn't realised what was going on.
The Federal Reserve now calls the 1965-1982 period the great inflation.
Incidentally, that's true today.
Current annualized inflation is over 6%, whereas is that substantially above the 4% level that caused Nixon to impose wage and price controls?
Now, similarly, we have to recognize that we are in the early stages of a communist coup.
It just crept up on us.
Now, there are some wimps around here who don't like us using the term communist to describe these people.
Isn't that right, Jared?
Where is he?
In fact, I'm reliably informed that Amran has banned the use of the term cultural Marxist, which I experimented with for a while because I thought it was more precise.
I haven't actually converted on this matter by John Derbyshire.
He regularly used the term communist to describe the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
And when I was looking this up today, I discovered that de Blasio was actually involved in pro-Santan Easter activities in the 1980s, when, of course, he put him on the wrong side of the Cold War.
In any case, I noticed that the term communist is gradually creeping into the mainstream discourse.
And somebody who's done great work in this area is the podcaster Jesse Kelly, who has been using it for a long time.
The problem is that we've all been subliminally subverted by the McCarthy Wars.
We think that communist has to mean card-carrying communist, that is, a member of the party, although my understanding is that the party did not actually issue cards.
But in fact, the term communist pre-exists formally organized communist parties.
Marx used it in his 1848 Communist Manifesto.
He said, a spectra is haunting Europe, the spectra of communism.
At that time, he hadn't written Das Capital.
I recently read a novel, a really eerie Catholic triumphalist dystopian futurist novel called Lord of the Ring, which is a curious...
It's been still in print after over 100 years, and it's been praised by a number of recent popes, including, oddly, Pope Francis.
Benson, he portrayed a war between the persecuted Catholic Church.
He was a Catholic convert.
He was a former son of an Archbishop of Canterbury.
So it was a huge scandal when he converted.
He was talking about this war between the persecuted Catholics and what he called communists.
Just absolutely matter-of-fact called them communists with the lower C. They weren't...
Visibly Marxists, but they were fanatical totalitarians and anti-Christians.
That's the point, I think.
Occasionally you hear people arguing that, well, you know, you can't call them comics because they don't know about the Labour Theory of Value.
Of course, you know, the Labour Theory of Value wasn't around when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto.
The point is that they're left totalitarians.
They go back to the Jacobins.
And there's a constant theme among them of being...
Anti-religious, not just totalitarian, but anti-religious.
And also definite elements of perversion.
Andy Noah's done very good work documenting Antifa in the Pacific Northwest.
And it's astonishing how many of these people actually turn out to be Trannis and other forms of deviants.
For example, some of you remember that one of our members got into a fight with or was attacked by an Antifa guy in 2017.
Well, I've watched that fellow carefully because I wanted to see what happened to him.
The answer was nothing.
And he turns out to be a Trani as well.
They're everywhere.
You know, if any of you have read Stan Evans' book about Joe McCarthy, Blacklisted by History, you end that book with a feeling of despair because McCarthy had been defeated and the Communist Party was still operating.
It's actually a miracle that America won the Cold War.
There was never a reckoning for that.
Those rings, those communist rings.
McCarthy, of course, was vindicated by the Venona intercepts.
The FBI actually knew who these people were and had been wiretapping them for years.
That's news that emerged in the 1990s.
But the transcription of those Venona intercepts was stopped during the Carter.
It was almost the last thing that Carter did.
Why? I mean, the truth is that the Democrat Party has always been soft on communism because so many of them were communists or ex-communists.
The people that we see in Antifa today are their children.
There's a whole concept of red diaper babies.
If you look it up, you'll find there's at least a score of books written about it.
They're gloating about it.
The fact that they're the children of communists and they're still active in American politics today.
You can test this by looking at a series of biographies.
Look at Obama.
One of his close friends in August, people sometimes say his actual father was Frank Davis, who was a black communist.
His book was written about Bill Ayres, who was a member of the Weather Underground Communist terrorist group in the 1980s, and was of course awarded by being made a tenured professor at the University of Illinois.
Look at Tim Kaine.
Tim Kaine was also involved in the Sandinistas in the 1980s.
That's not something he just did out of moral fervour.
He meant you were on the wrong side of the Cold War, and that's serious.
But it's never been seriously raised by the Republicans.
And Tim Kaine's son was a member of Antifa who was actually arrested for throwing explosives, firecrackers and fireworks, at a Trump rally in 2017.
Needless to say, he was let off with just probation.
These people in the mostly peaceful protest are not going to be let off with just probation.
We have a completely asymmetrical system of justice, unequal justice in this country now.
And then there's the case of Chiesa Boudin, who is the son of David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, who went to jail for being involved in the murder of two policemen in a bank holder.
It was an armored truck holder, actually, in New York in 1981.
He was then brought up by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn, who were also members of Weather Underground.
He's now the Attorney General in San Francisco, where he's caught utter havoc by not prosecuting criminals.
Michelle Malkin, who is also here today, and deserves to be congratulated, by the way, for coming here.
She's got real courage.
She wrote.
Thank you.
She's followed this for many years, and she just recently wrote an absolutely savage column, Coward Cuomo's Last Act of Treachery.
The last thing that the governor of New York did, Andrew Cuomo, before he was driven out of office, was to pardon David Gilbert, who'd been in prison for 45 years, Boudin's father.
He pardoned somebody who had been convicted of murder and was involved in extensive terrorism.
In the late 70s and early 80s, including, by the way, bombing the US Capitol, something which you never hear of when the Democrats are going on about how terrible the mostly peaceful protest was.
So these people are still there.
They're still active.
They're making public policy right now, and it's going to be a hard landing.
It's going to be a hard landing.
Well, I'm going to finish...
How about that, Jared?
On a relatively optimistic note.
And that optimistic note is what we call at Vida.com, the Saylor strategy.
It's alive and well.
The Saylor strategy is something that Steve started writing about in Vida in 2000, late 2000, late 2001, when Karl Rove was telling everybody that the Republicans needed to reach out to minorities.
Saylor pointed out that this was because Rove is innumerate.
And even a small increase in the white vote for Republicans would far overwhelm any conceivable increase that you could get by reaching out to minorities.
And he said that consistently for the next 16 years until Trump actually did it.
And for a brief moment...
I mean, it's actually one of the great forecasts of political journalism.
And for a brief moment, he had a sort of moment for fame.
It wasn't 15 seconds of fame.
It was like two seconds of fame.
He appeared in the New Yorker, and he was referred to in the New York Times.
And that's it.
Nobody's ever interviewed him since then.
They don't want to know what do you think is going to happen next.
But the fact is, this new election, this last election, vindicated the strategy.
Jared and I both use a writer called Patrick McDermott.
That's not his real name.
He's actually a Democrat, but he's very interested in this question of the white vote.
And he says, he's consistently said that there's actually no limit to how far the white vote could go up for Republicans if they actually focused on it, which Trump did not.
After the election, the New York Times published this beautiful headline.
It said, Democrats thought they bottomed out in rural white America.
It wasn't the bottom.
And he's referring there to the fact that the vote that this Youngkin character, who as far as I can see is an absolute cipher, got among whites in general, and rural whites in particular, actually exceeded significantly what Trump got.
They quoted somebody who works for Data for Progress, which is a left-wing group, who said, in rural America, the bottom for the Democrat Party is zero.
I'm serious about this.
By the way, that's also true in Pennsylvania.
We don't have exit polls in New Jersey.
We don't have exit polls in New Jersey.
But the excellent article in the City Journal, which basically analyzes the results in terms of districts, and comes to the conclusion...
Well, I'll read the headline.
Twilight of the blue-collar Democrats.
In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, last week's elections marked an end of a crucial party constituency.
I don't think that's because the Republicans did much to deserve it.
Although there is this remarkable case of this truck driver who defeated the Senate majority leader.
He only spent $150, but he only spent a couple of thousand dollars.
And that's really some kind of an earthquake.
Look at West Virginia.
As Jared says, last year, I guess it was a year ago in February, my wife Lydia got fed up with being cancelled out of all these hotels where we're trying to hold confidence and bought the Berkeley Springs Castle, which is in Morgan County in West Virginia,
About two hours.
Thank you.
It's about two hours from the U.S. Capitol.
Very convenient next time we want to storm it.
And we're refurbishing it.
We're going to have small conferences there and dinners and things.
And I hope that all of you come.
Not all at once, but over time.
Now, West Virginia is a little over 90% white.
For comparison, the US itself was a little under 90% white in 1960 before the Immigration Act kicked in.
Every single county in West Virginia went for Trump.
Every one.
It's actually quite heart-rending.
It's very, very poor.
You go through these middle-estate poverty stream, trail parks, trailers, you know, stuck up in the trees.
They like having a lot of land around them.
And they're flying Trump flags.
Still flying Trump flags.
And recently they started to fly Let's Go Brandon flags.
Actually, they don't say Let's Go Brandon.
But it's worse than a fact.
Now, Logan County in southern West Virginia.
Just listen to this from Wikipedia.
Logan County broke 72% of its ballots for Bill Clinton.
72% for Bill Clinton in 1996.
61% for Al Gore in 2000.
Even 52% for John Kerry in 2004.
But by 2008, McCain flipped it to Republican calm.
In 2016 and 2020, he voted over 80% for Trump.
That's a huge change.
So I think McDermott is right.
There's a long way to go in the white vote.
Similarly, there's Grant County, which is just less than an hour from Morgan County, where we live.
Here's Wikipedia again.
Politically, Grant County is a massive outlier in West Virginia.
While the rest of the state did not become a Republican bastion until the 21st century, having leaned heavily Democratic between the New Deal and Bill Clinton, Grant County has always been among the most strongly Republican counties in the country.
Since Grant County was created in 1866, no Democrat has managed to receive 40% of the counties voting any national election, even in Democrat presidential landslide.
Grant County voted 88.9% for Trump in this last election.
Now, those of you who know the history of West Virginia will realise that what's going on here is West Virginia was divided and emerged, of course, from the Civil War.
But West Virginians fought on both sides in the Civil War.
And there were several West Virginia regiments in the Army of the Potomac.
Logan County in the south was a Confederate territory.
Grant County in the North, as you can tell from its name, was Republican territory.
But they're now voting the same way, over 80% for Trump.
Actually, four counties in West Virginia voted more than 85% for Trump.
And this is pointing to a very interesting cultural phenomenon, which some people have seen a certain amount of worried talk about on the left.
Just recently, somebody wrote in a Substack article what he called the southernification of rural America.
And the sign of this, some of you will be particularly delighted to know, is that we're now seeing battle flags, Confederate battle flags, all over the country.
It was illustrated by a picture of a trucker in Maine.
With a gigantic truck with a Trump Sinai and a huge battle flag on his front fender.
His name was Marc Pelletier.
Marc Pelletier, I should say.
He's a Francophone.
He's come down from, as part of the migration from Quebec into rural Maine.
So, white America, which is to say America, is on the move.
I don't know where.
Maybe state secession, redividing states and so on.
Personally, as you can see, I favour a reconquista.
Thank you.
Not that reconquista.
Our reconquista.
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