Gingrich, Miller Want to Make America White Again, But U.S. Needs New Blood
By: Manny Otiko
Tags: Birth, Politics, Race, Immigration, White Supremacy

One of my recent articles said that white nationalism was a crucial part of the Republican Party platform. At first, I thought that was too harsh, and then I read the news. Former President Donald Trump might be out of the White House, but white supremacy hasn’t left the Republican Party.

It’s always been there. For example, while we might think Trumpism was shocking, it was a more blatant version of the kind of far-right idealogy espoused by Pat Buchanan. He was the former White House insider and presidential candidate who said America would be better if we imported more Irishmen than Zulus.

He often railed against the increasing number of nonwhite Americans and claimed that it would lower test scores. Trump was more open and cruder than Buchanan. However, these kinds of views have not gone away. Consider these recent stories:

No immigrants = more white people

At the recent Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference, Stephen Miller, the Jew with neo-Nazi tendencies, said we need to ban all forms of immigration, both legal and illegal. In Miller’s eyes, that would give the country a “break.” (Meaning maintaining the white majority.)

Again, this is not surprising. Miller, a former White House advisor, has been a longtime white supremacist and racist which is documented in the book “Race Baiter.” During the presentation, he also bragged about the minuscule number of refugees admitted during the Trump administration.

Miller once said that he planned to make sure no refugees set foot in America, even though his ancestors were refugees from Russia. But go figure. Hypocrisy is also a main feature of conservative politics. The so-called advocates of family values elected a thrice-married predator whose current wife is a nude model. And Evangelical Christians loved him! That should have put a stake in the “family values” debate forever.

The Great Replacement lie

However, the reprehensible Mr. Miller wasn’t the only Republican to recently bolster white nationalism. Former speaker of the house and first-rate hypocrite Newt Gingrich recently backed Tucker Carlson’s twisted views when he said Democrats are trying to replace white people. He actually used the phrase “traditional Americans,” but wouldn’t that mean Native Americans, the original inhabitants of the North American continent?

But we all know what Gingrich meant. Even worse is the fact Gingrich is repeating a white supremacist conspiracy theory, amplified by Carlson. The Great Replacement Conspiracy theory is an idea straight from the pages of neo-Nazi message boards.

Republicans think that all those Black and brown immigrants and babies will vote Democrat. But there’s no guarantee of that. However, if the GOP keeps up its white nationalist rhetoric and policies, this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In their minds, Jews are importing people from the Third World to replace white people. Carlson substituted the word “elites” for Jews, but the implication is clear. And Jews took notice of Carlson’s neo-Nazi pandering.

“Tucker Carlson disgustingly gave an impassioned defense of the white supremacist ‘great replacement theory,’ the hateful notion that the white race is in danger of being ‘replaced’ by a rising tide of non-whites,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and national director ADL. “While couching his argument in terms of what he described as the Democratic Party attempting to replace traditional voters with immigrants from third-world countries, Carlson’s rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn.”

Newt Gingrich: fake conservative, real hypocrite

However, Gingrich’s adoption of Carlson’s poisonous rhetoric is problematic for another reason. He’s on his third marriage. Gingrich also suggested that he and his second wife engage in an open relationship, and his first wife was his former high school teacher. He also cheated on both of his previous wives and left them when they came down with serious illnesses.

There’s nothing traditional about his lifestyle. Gingrich has more marriages under his belt than Hugh Hefner! Even though I’m about as far left as you can get, I’ve only been married once. So does that make me more conservative than Gingrich?

Both Gingrich and Miller appeal to the GOP’s fast-shrinking constituency, white people and mainly white men. However, they ignore another reality. America needs more people. The birthrate is declining as young people struggle with stagnant wages and exploding college debt and opt to have fewer children or no children. According to figures from the World Bank, the national birth rate has steadily declined since 1960. Now it stands at 1.64. A thriving economy needs a 2.0 birthrate to replace the older people who are dying off.

Have more babies — if you can afford them

Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi just got the bill for birthing a child in America; it was $37,000. In Britain, Mahdawi’s homeland, new parents don’t receive any bill because of the National Healthcare System. And if you want the price of raising that child in America until it’s 18, add another 0 to that figure.

However, while Republicans complain about young people not having kids, they don’t want to do anything to make it easier for working families, such as reducing the cost of college (or make it free,) raising wages or providing affordable childcare.

Where do we get the new people? Those are people who are needed to teach our children, conduct research, fill orders, bathe and feed our elderly parents, fight our wars and police our streets? The answer is immigration, but most people coming to America are People of Color — precisely the kind of people Republicans don’t want.

Republicans think that all those Black and brown immigrants and babies will vote Democrat. But there’s no guarantee of that. However, if the GOP keeps up its white nationalist rhetoric and policies, this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s one of the reasons why Republicans are pushing hundreds of voter suppression laws around the country. They see what’s coming and envision a future where they can win elections with fewer votes!

However, immigration also produces a great number of scientific and academic minds. According to a paper by the National Foundation for American Policy, since 2000, 37 % of Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine, and physics came from immigrants. Also, about a quarter of the medical professional is foreign-born.

So while Republicans constantly complain about the influx of people, it’s good for America in the long run. However, after sifting through the wreckage of the Trump presidency, it’s clear that Republicans are more interested in doing what’s good for them than what’s good for the country.