Generic American Party Vs. Great Replacement Party: Now An Irrepressible Conflict - With Or Without Trump

“The Cold Civil War” is heating up with the fight between President Donald Trump and “The Squad” of Leftist minority congresswomen, particularly former refugee Ilhan Omar. The question in this political struggle is as fundamental as the one at the center of the more violent 19th century conflict: The Republican base clearly believes the U.S. is a majority-white country rooted in the traditions of the Founding—the Historic American Nation. But Democrats (and some of the controlled opposition in Conservatism Inc.) think America belongs to the entire world—that it isn’t really a nation at all. This is an irrepressible conflict. and lines are clearly drawn between a GOP base that believes in the old America and Leftists who explicitly want to replace it....

President Trump’s base is to the right of the Commander-in-Chief himself....

The Republican base clearly wants real action on immigration, including deportations and a wall. Yet little has materialized. There’s bluster, but no action. President Trump speaks loudly, but carries a small stick....

Unfortunately for many in the Beltway Right, America is not a real country, simply an abstraction, a vessel carrying abstract “values” that only they seem to believe in....

ll this is happening at a time when deficits and spending are skyrocketing (but, somehow, there’s no money for the wall.)...

In short, this isn’t sustainable. What’s more, whatever President Trump’s bluster, the numbers tell the tale. Because of sheer demographics, Texas will soon go blue—and then Republicans will be unelectable nationally, barring a massive political realignment....

What is happening is the logical conclusion of the disastrous 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, which reignited mass immigration after a four-decade legislated pause. The abolition of national origins preferences implied that the United States did not have a racial, ethnic, or even cultural base. Thus, America was transformed into a “nation of immigrants” or a “universal nation” even if some of those who voted for the act did not recognize what they were doing....

Instead, what’s shaping up is a zero-sum conflict. The Democrats define themselves as the opponents of the Historic American Nation and what they see as its unacceptable history.