Presidential Choice

 

My most valued discovery from American Renaissance has been race realism. Professor J. Philippe Rughton explains race realism in his essay, “Race, Evolution and Behavior.” You can find it here:

http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm

One can be a white nationalist and a race realist. They are distinct. White nationalism is a movement. Race realism is a number of testable hypotheses.

I have known too many non whites I liked, and too many whites I did not like to be a white nationalist. At the same time, I retain my commitment to the socialist – labor left of Michael Harrington and Walter Reuther from my youth as an anti war activist during the War in Vietnam. The economic concerns of the white working class are my concerns.

During the late 1960’s the Democrat Party abandoned the white working class in order to help blacks. What have Republicans done for white blue collar workers? During the Reagan administration the number of factory jobs began to decline from their height during the administration of President Carter.

 

Beginning with the Reagan administration the rich paid lower taxes on bigger incomes, while after tax incomes for most Americans stagnated or declined.

 

President Reagan pioneered the tactic of appealing to the social concerns of whites who are not rich in order to make the rich richer. President Trump has mastered the technique. 

Every now and then his impulsiveness gets the better of him.

In his February 5, 2019 State of the Union Address President Trump left his prepared text to say, “I want legal immigration in the largest number ever.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/05/trump-state-of-the-union-legal-immigration-1148629

There is not a lot of difference between this and Joe Biden’s commitment to:

“Welcome immigrants in our communities.”

https://joebiden.com/immigration/#

Reducing illegal immigration by increasing legal immigration is somewhat like reducing the crime rate by decriminalizing mugging. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 is a major cause of the growing income divide. By applying for jobs immigrants enable employers to lower wages. By applying for places to live immigrants enable landlords to raise rents. In the process, immigrants raise the profits of the employer investor classes.

It cannot be said that the immigration policy of either political party represents the interests of white employees who are American citizens. I agree with President Trump that we need to reduce illegal immigration. There are ways to do this that are less expensive and less environmentally destructive than building Trump’s Wall. I think the emphasis should be on punishing those who rent to and hire illegal immigrants. The Republican Party does not like that idea because landlords and employers make up much of the Republican Donor Class.

 Also, Candidate Trump’s promise that Mexco would pay for his wall exposes him as a dishonest demagogue. The Washington Post has reported over 18,000 lies by Donald Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

A promise that deserves to be taken seriously is this one, that the President made in a press briefing August 13, 2020,  “And the payroll tax — we’ll be terminating the payroll tax after I, hopefully, get elected.” 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-081320/

This will make Social Security and Medicare unsupportable.  

Two important Republican constituencies are working class whites and retired whites. Most white blue collar workers do not have health and retirement plans at work. Most do not make enough money to save for retirement, or pay for private health insurance. They need the Affordable Care Act, and they will need Social Security and Medicare when they retire. Joe Biden will preserve Social Security and Medicate at existing levels, as Donald Trump said he would when he campaigned in 2016. Joe Biden will preserve the Affordable Care Act. Joe Biden will also restore the environmental regulations President Trump has repealed. Pollution harms all of us, including President Trump’s white blue collar and retired supporters.

The Republican Party has become the party of the white working class. It is not the party for them, at least not on economic issues.