So the rampant isolationism of the US white nationalists has now been further betrayed by Trump even as the underlying meanings remain fixated on their racist messaging. Like a dry hate, they are only concerned with being racist within US borders. If only such “ethno-nationalist” provincialism were still situated in feudal times, and not social networked. Darn those keks. NIMBY Nazis.
The reality is that there is more self-marginalization as mainstream conservatism and its institutional vanguard of neocons exclude paleo-cons on the basis of class, age, and gender and of course race. And then there are those doctrinal differences among right-wing sects of major religions, that connection among kindred groups that rationalize versions of dominionism.
The Trump White House is like other all right-tending regimes, ultimately about money before ethnicity and race, which is where the affinity ends.
It may be the case that this defection of extremists corresponds to making White House national security matters more conventional. If the #TrumpRussia investigation fails to achieve US justice, the “alt-whites” may return to the fold and continue to unify white-supremacists on a global scale.
Richard Spencer, whose support for Trump has dimmed as Trump’s stances on immigration have, according to Spencer’s harsh measure, softened, issued what is perhaps his most forceful rebuke of the president so far in a video titled “The Trump Betrayal.” “I have to be brutally honest,” he said. “I am deeply disappointed in Donald Trump. I’m shocked, and I’m angry. And I am ready to condemn Donald Trump.” He was far from alone. “The #AltRight is now totally independent of Trump, and this anti-West, pro-terrorist foreign policy,” the white nationalist publication VDare tweeted. “Organize, organize, organize.” “So Trump's first forceful action as President was supposedly to defend the same people that mow down white children with trucks,” the Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch wrote disgustedly.
This was a reaction foretold by the alt-right’s very origins. The split between the mainstream conservative movement and the paleoconseratives—that is, those fixated on maintaining traditional cultural and religious identity who would become the alt-right’s intellectual progenitors in the United States—came into being over not only racism but also opposition to American intervention in the Middle East, including the Iraq war.
“9/11 was a direct consequence of the United States meddling in an area of the world where we do not belong and where we are not wanted,” paleoconservative Pat Buchanan said in a 2002 appearance on Hardball. “We were attacked because we were on Saudi sacred soil and we are so-called repressing the Iraqis and we’re supporting Israel and all the rest of it.”
And because the right-wing media machine has no incentive to actually help Republicans govern—it thrives on conflict, not consensus—it did nothing to help sell the deal. And the Republican president, who doesn’t care about or understand policy, and who acts only based on what he thinks will play well on TV, got bored with the negotiation and thought he could just bluster his way to a deal that would make him look like he got something done. This is the blueprint for the next four years, if Trump manages to last that long before giving up. The president won’t have the patience for the legislative process, and the legislators will be dealing with the cognitive dissonance of learning repeatedly that the real-world version of their fantasy politics is massively unpopular…
If the bullshit-peddlers who attached themselves to Trump truly want to remake the nation—beyond making it meaner in the areas in which it is already pretty persistently mean, or beyond simply raining death down upon foreigners with even less regard for casualties or consequences than evinced by prior administrations—they’re screwed. They’re screwed because they and their predecessors engineered a perpetual misinformation machine, and then a bunch of people addicted to their product took over the government.
It was apparently nothing more than a show of strength, given that the Trump administration reportedly warned both Russia and Syria prior to the strike, and Syrian planes were said to be taking off from Shayrat less than 24 hours after the bombing, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. If that weren’t enough, Trump oversaw the attack from his vacation home at Mar-a-Lago while hosting Chinese president Xi Jinping—perhaps sending a message to China about how to handle North Korea. www.thedailybeast.com/...
On Capitol Hill, senior figures already detect a more conventional bent to policy. Not long ago, when bigwigs met Team Trump, they heard alarming talk of grand bargains with Russia, perhaps exchanging concessions over Ukraine for help containing Iran and battling Islamic extremists in Syria. Such ideas have not survived Mr Flynn’s ejection, they say. Listen carefully, and people who want America to have a functioning NSC are giving two cautious cheers.