MAGA White Supremacists Are a Bunch of Pathetic Losers
The proper response to these whiners is mockery and contempt.
Among the deep and probably lasting ways Donald Trump transformed the Republican Party and American conservatism is this: What was implicit is now explicit, what was subtext is now text. The dog whistles are put away, the subtlety is replaced with bluntness, and the laborious task of appealing to what is worst in people in such a way as to allow them to convince themselves they are still committed to admirable ideals is set aside.
So as those hoping to retain or expand their influence in the post-Trump GOP begin navigating their way toward the future, many have decided that there’s not much need anymore to clothe their white supremacist ideas in reassuring language. It’s right on the table for all to see.
Yet we can take a bit of solace in an increasingly obvious fact, one that’s worth understanding and emphasizing since we’ll be dealing with these people and their ideas for some time to come:
MAGA white supremacists are a bunch of losers.
They’re whiny and stupid and weak, their ideas whither under even a moment’s scrutiny or questioning, and their fantasies of oppression are pathetic. Let’s take a look around at what Republicans are saying, starting with this ad from Andy Barr, a Kentucky congressman who’s running for the seat of the retiring Mitch McConnell in Kentucky:
“You know what DEI really stands for? Dumb, evil indoctrination. Woke liberals spew it. Corporate losers fall for it. But thanks to Trump, America is rejecting that trash. And I’m leading the fight to end it for good. I’m Andy Barr. It’s not a sin to be white. It’s not against the law to be male. And it shouldn’t be disqualifying to be a Christian. I’m Andy Barr, and I approve this message to give woke liberals something else to cry about.”
So brave! If only we can dream of a future in which all whites are not condemned, men are not arrested and imprisoned because of their gender, and Christians can get jobs or loans just like Jews or Muslims. There’s only one person crying here, and it’s Andy Barr.
Barr has long been known as one of the dimmer bulbs in the House, but he stands a fair shot of becoming a U.S. senator. He may have been encouraged to proclaim the heretofore oppressed virtue of whiteness by Vice President JD Vance, who recently told the Turning Point USA conference that with the Trump administration in office, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” Nobody in JD Vance’s life ever made him apologize for being white, and the same is true for the pasty petit bourgeoisie in the hall who cheered so gratefully when he said it. But they’ve been told a thousand times by Fox News and the rest of the media they consume that that’s what noble white people have to endure at the hands of cruel liberals every day. So with their imaginary anguish validated from the heights of power, they’re more willing than ever to come right out and rep their white pride.
Who else is doing so? The world’s richest man, for one:
Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material…
Musk’s posts included him repeatedly claiming white people face systemic discrimination, endorsing the conspiracy that there is an ongoing genocide against white people in countries around the world and promoting a claim that white people would be “slaughtered” by non-whites if they become a demographic minority.
Meanwhile, we have an administration full of incel groypers sharing Nazi memes on social media accounts for the White House and cabinet departments. Like Musk, they want desperately to be considered cool and funny, but they aren’t and will never be. They’re losers.
And since the administration decided that it wasn’t white supremacist enough, it nominated Jeremy Carl, author of The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, who regularly decries the “erasure” of “white culture” and says whites are facing a “cultural genocide,” for a high position in the State Department representing America to international organizations. In his confirmation hearing, Carl allowed that perhaps his comments minimizing the Holocaust were a tad ill-considered, but under questioning he struggled to explain what precisely the “white culture” that he is so passionately devoted to preserving actually consists of:
There are a number of appropriate responses when witnessing this display, but the first one should be Look at this pathetic loser.
The rhetoric of race in the post-Trump GOP
If you were an ambitious Republican — say, one thinking about running for president — watching how explicit the appeals to white resentment have become, what conclusions would you draw about your party and what it wants? The early discussion of the 2028 GOP presidential primary is being framed as a contest between Vance and Marco Rubio, and though that is far too limited, Vance is definitely going to run and Rubio probably will too (though if he’s really clever he’ll wait another four years). In the meantime, Rubio is trying to find his way by positioning his rhetoric halfway between the more explicit white supremacism and venomous xenophobia Vance represents and the subtle appeals of the pre-Trump era. Here’s what he told European leaders at the Munich security conference:
For the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
We are part of one civilization – Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
I’ve written before about Rubio’s sad evolution, from the politician who was supposed to create a new multi-racial Republican Party poised for the future to the emasculated Trump lackey we see today. Now he is beginning to position himself for a kinder, gentler version of Trump’s naked racism, taking some of Vance’s blood-and-soil nationalism and presenting it as a heritage that somehow includes himself, a Cuban-American son of immigrants.
All this is evidence that 16 years after Barack Obama was elected and 9 years after he left office, the Republican Party (and much of the country) is still in the grips of its white backlash, the collective freakout that accompanied a Black man becoming president — even a Black man who spent his entire life figuring out how to make himself as unthreatening to white people as possible. Given the fact that expressions of racism and white supremacism have gotten only more frequent from conservative politicians and media figures, anyone wanting to lead the GOP in 2028 would be a fool not to appeal to the racial animus that still boils inside the party’s soul.
What matters for the rest of us is, to repeat, these people are losers, and winning requires convincing as many Americans as possible of that fact. The white supremacists have nothing to offer but resentment and complaint, hate and fear, whining and bitching and moaning. Voters have to be shown that the only thing they will gain by following these losers is more misery and disappointment.
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Yes, they are losers, with a capital L. But we have to make sure that the republican losers actually lose. We have to make them lose at the ballot box, certainly, but we also need to make them lose in the marketplace of ideas and in the court of public opinion. We have to find ways to marginalize the republicans and their idiotic messages until they become permanently irrelevant. And then we need to scatter the malignant ashes of conservative ideology until it can no longer stain the nation and the world with its insidious evil.
Poor little white boys - and in truth, girls! They might find out that there is a phalanx of nonwhite people, who, once the white knees are off their necks, are ever so much more superior, in so many ways. And it’s scaring the shit outa them. They’re afraid 😧 that the same treatment they’ve visited on minorities will come for them. That that’s not likely to happen (because the desire is merely to reap similar benefits for their work, and who they are) serves to highlight just how inferior white supremacists are. And to me, that’s the overwhelming fear. So they invent just that scenario. That just maybe they’ll find out that their “white exceptionalism” is a myth - and they might lose their self declared top of the pyramid status. And yet their methods prove that that would be right and just. Just my opinion.