Happy New Year everyone! I'm Peter Brimelow. I am not the editor of VDARE.com, but I am on Substack at PeterBrimelow.com and it's free!
So Lydia and I went to see Donald Trump inaugurated in Washington DC. We went to the Heritage Foundation's Open House. You can see our passes; my friends here are wearing the passes around their necks now. Heritage is where Lydia was an intern when we started dating.
We also went to the Passage Press Ball, the “Coronation Ball,” on the Saturday night. Passage Press, of course, published Steve Sailer's book Noticing and is about to publish John Derbyshire's book. Both of those have drawn very heavily on the writings they did for VDARE.com.
It's sort of a bittersweet thing for me personally. Lots of people seem to recognize me—maybe it's the hair!—and they come up and tell me what a great thing VDARE.com was and how much they dislike what New York State Attorney General Letitia James has done to it, in subpoenaing and “investigating” it to death.
This “investigation,” by the way, is still raging on. She hauled in one of our board members a couple of days after the Inauguration and interrogated him for five and a half hours, even though he's not been on the board since 2020 and knows nothing whatever about the Castle transaction, which was her alleged focus of interest. The harassment is continuing.
I guess I'd like to make three points about this inauguration. One is that it was completely different from the 2017 inauguration. I wrote a VDARE.com article about that, which we headlined, "It Will Come To Blood"—Reflections On The Left's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum. And of course, it did come to blood in the summer of 2020 with the Black Lives Matter riots and also with the Deep State's concerted effort all the way through the Trump Administration to suppress him, impeach him, and hinder everything he was doing. Nothing like that is happening now.
In 2017, there was a sort of off-Broadway inaugural ball called the "DeploraBall." That was attacked by Antifa, and people had to fight their way in. There was even an attempt made to poison the people attending the ball using the air conditioning system. This year, at the Passage Press off-Broadway “Coronation Ball,” there were no protests at all—no photographers, no Antifa, nothing at all. The streets were empty.
Of course, that's partly because there was a heavy snowstorm as we were driving in that Sunday, with the result that we knew it was going to be a "Huwhite Inauguration"! And that's how it turned out!
Another point: Some of the things that Trump has done in this incredible burst of activity over the last week are sort of bittersweet for us too. For example, abolishing Birthright Citizenship strikes at the jugular of the Great Replacement. If they can't bring these people in and have their children—American-born children—become citizens, then they're not going to get them into the political nation, and they won't be able to dispossess the Historic American Nation, which is, of course, what they want to do. VDARE.com first wrote about abolishing Birthright Citizenship in 2001, 24 years ago. It's been a long haul.
That applies even more so, at least for me personally, to Trump's astonishing decision to rescind Executive Order 11246, which was the start of Affirmative Action, signed by Lyndon Johnson. I have been involved in Affirmative Action wars since I worked on the Hill for Senator Hatch from Utah in 1980. Along with a friend on the staff, we tried very hard to make abolishing Affirmative Action the wedge issue that could have elected him president. So that's—good God—45 years ago.
Although the Left is stunned, it's going to be a bitter fight ahead, particularly over Birthright Citizenship.
People say the court is never going to allow this or Congress is never going to pass that. That's not the point. The point is to fight it out and get it into the political arena. The income tax, for example, was once found unconstitutional, and its supporters had to pass a constitutional amendment to make it happen. It took time, but they succeeded. That’s what may have to happen here.
The difference is that people do not like and never have liked income tax. Birthright Citizenship reform, in contrast, is very popular. People are appalled to learn that illegal aliens can have children here, and those children are technically Americans, eligible for benefits, and ultimately able to vote.
So stopping Birthright Citizenship is going to be a very profitable political issue for a patriot party that picks it up, as I assume Trump's Republicans are going to do.
I go on about things we’ve published in the past at VDARE.com, partly because no-one else is going to give us credit, but more importantly because these are situations where we were right in the past and therefore there’s reason to think we—me—will be right in the future.
And there are several new issues that we need to get into public debate in exactly the same way that we got Birthright Citizenship and Affirmative Action into public debate.
Above all, there’s the issue of an immigration moratorium, meaning no net immigration, a dramatic cut to legal immigration. Trump hinted at this in his August 15, 2015, statement on immigration—which Ann Coulter called the greatest thing since Magna Carta—but he’s kind of wandered away from the subject since then, he’s focused too much on illegal immigration. We have to make him wander back, or make what we call the Generic American Party, GAP to distinguish it from GAP, wander back too.
Another issue: Birthright Citizenship reform should be retroactive, at least until 2021, when the Biden Regime began. None of these people the Regime let in, it’s estimated to be 8-18 million, should be having citizen children. So it should be retroactive. Possibly even further back.
I personally think the waiting period for citizenship should be increased. It’s currently five years, but in the past it’s been 10 or 15 years, I believe. We need to get back to that. Soon.
Finally, the issue of ethnic balance needs to enter public debate. When Teddy Kennedy was pushing the '65 Immigration Act, he said specifically that the ethnic balance of the country would not be disturbed. It has been disturbed. It's time to undisturb it. Than means, simply, is discriminating in favor of white immigrants. For example, why not invite all the Afrikaners in?
In conclusion, a bit of senior wisdom: when you get to my appalling age, you've seen a lot of nasty things happen. You learn to embrace nice things when they happen. Keep your eyes open, of course, but embrace them.
It used to be that people said the conservative movement's job was to lose gracefully. I say let's try winning gracefully for a change.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this video. We'll be doing more of them, and I'll be publishing my writing at PeterBrimelow.com. Thank you.
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