Richard Spencer and William H. Regnery II.
Lance Williams at Reveal has an absorbing article up about the person and money behind neo-nazi Richard Spencer. For many years, Regnery’s notions about race got him kicked out of one organization or another, but the rise of the Tiny Tyrant has made many of his dreams come true.
Long before Donald Trump’s election ushered in an era of resurgent white nationalism, a disaffected Republican named William H. Regnery II was brooding about the demographic plight of white people and plotting their rescue.
Like Trump more than 20 years later, Regnery, the wealthy scion of a famous GOP family, had an increasingly dark view of a changing America: As he wrote, the U.S. had become a crime-ridden society with bad schools, high taxes, an intrusive government and a penchant for political correctness that was “morphing into an intellectual tyranny.”
Worse, “a flood of immigrants were changing the look of America from a palette of prime colors to a third-world monochrome,” he wrote in a rant that would be at home on the bookshelf of Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon. “Instead of a lingua franca, the country clanged with many foreign tongues.”
By 1999, he had come to believe that the only future for white people in North America was a reconfigured continent with a white-only homeland carved out of the former United States.
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Through his family’s famed conservative publishing house, Regnery had been on a first-name basis with the cream of the Republican establishment. But by 2006, his public views on race left him ostracized from the GOP.
Now, he’s back. Working behind the scenes, the retired Chicago business executive has played an important role in making his ultra-right views a part of America’s political conversation in the era of Trump.
In what he has described as his crowning political achievement, Regnery discovered Richard Spencer, the mediagenic agitator who invented the term “alt-right.” In 2011, Regnery made him the frontman for his white nationalist think tank, the National Policy Institute, providing Spencer the platform to launch the alt-right movement.
The full article is here, recommended.
Such punchable faces!
Indeed. Where they get this notion of the mastery and greatness of the white race, I don’t know. It’s certainly not apparent.
“The plight of white people”. The plight of most white people is their incredible cluelessness.
Kestrel:
And learning not to whine over inconsequential matters. It’s just so gosh darn hard!
Always two, there are. No more. No less. A Master and an apprentice.
Since racism has no actual basis in anything -- it’s a misinterpretation of economics and power -- it’s an entirely learned behavior, and racists learn it from somewhere: other racists.
The plight of this particular white person is to be tremendously embarrassed by a lot of other white people. I can’t apologize enough. Other white people, please, staaaahp!
I’d really like to see Spencer’s birth certificate; I’m still not entirely convinced that he didn’t tear his way out of someone’s chest.
Spencer on his own is bad enough; it’s extra nasty that he has his very own sugar daddy.
<blockquoteWorse, “a flood of immigrants were changing the look of America from a palette of prime colors to a third-world monochrome,” Huh??? This appears to be bassackwards. We/re going from a monochrome flesh-tone to a palette of colors.
Did he just say American skin colours used to be red / blue / yellow in the good ol’ days?
But a lingua franca is a language that a region defaults to in spite of having many varied tongues. Meaning, english being the lingua franca of north america is not contradicted by there being multiple other languages present.
You know, I’m getting the impression that this guy isn’t half as smart as he believes.
I thought the whole world was in monochrome until around WWII. There’s film and photographic evidence.