Not for themselves or their affluent friends, but for the rest of us, Democrats treat Americans—black and white—like second-class citizens in our own country. They do this in several ways, most obviously in the progressive projects to relegate white Americans to minority status through mass immigration and keep black Americans under the thumb of the welfare state and trapped in impoverished inner-city communities. Paternalism is inherent in progressive thinking, and they see Americans as children to be corralled and managed.
Former Chairman of the RNC (from 2009-2011), Michael Steele, now co-host of The Weeknight on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and, embarrassingly, adopting the dialect of the black ghetto dweller appropriate to his new gig as token host, is threatening whites with the coming majority-minority America. White people will rue the day they ended racially gerrymandered districts, he more than suggested recently.
CNN’s Abby Phillip launched into a similar rant last night, declaring: “We are in the depths of Hell.” As I note in my X post, what Phillip is advocating is, at its core, racialist. I carefully say “racialist” and not “racist,” because racism requires an ideology rooted in the belief of racial superiority. If Phillip believes in black superiority, she hasn’t said so, so I will give her the benefit of the doubt. The point is that Phillip is not about voting as individuals, but as racial tribes. Blacks will lose their representatives when racial gerrymandering goes away, she claims.
Phillip’s argument only works if you accept the premise that voting should be organized around racial categories and not individual citizens. Removing majority-minority districts does not prevent individuals of any race from voting for the candidate of their choice. And that’s a problem for Democrats. The abolition of racial gerrymandering means that the citizens get to choose their representatives rather than the representatives choosing their citizens. This is the way it should be in a society founded on individualism and personal liberty. For Democrats, free elections threaten the Party’s hold on power. Moreover, in the long term, race-neutrality undermines the identitarianism that the Party has used for decades to isolate populations and make them dependent on welfare and racially-selective privileging.
One can see the problem of representatives choosing their constituency in the situation in West Tennessee, where racial gerrymandering has led to a white male Democrat being reelected numerous times by black constituents (see last week’s essay Democrats in Full Meltdown Over Tennessee’s Redistricting Law). Steve Cohen has held that seat for two decades. Charlotte Bergmann, a black Republican, ran against Cohen in 2024. Cohen received more than 70 percent of the vote. The arrangement Republicans just dissolved effectively prevented conservative black voters in that district from having a reasonable chance of electing a candidate reflecting their aspirations.
That’s the design of racial gerrymandering. Majority-minority districting is a strategy of control, not by the people, but by a political party that sees the world in terms of group power. This is a key feature of progressivism (not to be confused with liberalism). If progressivism were actually progressive, it would be at the forefront of eliminating racial tribalism. But progressivism is, in reality, a regressive ideology. Racial politics is atavistic. Bergmann is running again in 2026, and the new arrangement makes it more likely that she will prevail. This explains the cable news and social media meltdown: the competitiveness of race-neutral districting makes it difficult for Democrats to win. Race-neutral districts are more politically diverse, and that is not the diversity Democrats seek.
Phillip is obviously in the Democrat camp. Whatever his party affiliation is today (he claims he is still a Republican), Steele is the epitome of a RINO—that is, “Republican in name only.” RINOs are controlled opposition, loyal to the donor class and the establishment. The Republic is secondary for this class of politicians. It is thus noteworthy that Steele was defeated in his reelection as RNC chairman, not only for his public gaffes and controversial comments (for which he was notorious), but because many in the Republican Party were already moving away from the neoconservatism of the Bush era. The lack of enthusiasm for John McCain and Mitt Romney was an indication of this. The rise of the Tea Party also signalled the change. Steele was no longer useful. His reputation as a RINO and his loud criticism of Donald Trump, who took advantage of the split in Republican loyalities, made him the ideal (apparent) partisan for MSNBC, which put him on its payroll in 2025.
Steele is smart enough to know that ending race-based districts is not just for the sake of the colorblind principle at the heart of our civilization, which progressivism has corrupted with tribalism, but also for reclaiming our American Republic for our children. To achieve the ends that RINOs like Steele abhor, patriots must marginalize the Democratic Party. This may be our last shot to save the country. Steele is no patriot, and so he is useful to those forces seeking to bring down Trump (Phillip has always been useful in this way). Nominal Republicans like Steele are there to make millions believe that MAGA is a racist movement (fascist, as well) and to keep some Republicans in the fold. The trick isn’t working so well these days. As Steve Bannon of the War Room puts it: “the people have had a bellyful of it.”
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Who are the first-class citizens in the eyes of Democrats? Progressive elites excepted, they aren’t even citizens. They’re black and brown foreigners—set against not only whites, but established minorities. The coming majority-minority America is not accidental. Demographic change is strategic. It is intentional. At the heart of the project is what is known as “managed decline.” Elites pursue the same agenda in Europe. As I have noted in previous essays, Third Worlders are colonizing the nations of the West. But they are not the only colonizers. Transnationalists have colonized our institutions, as well. Indeed, the barbarians would not be inside the gates if it were not for the transnationalists in our midst. We’ve been betrayed by our own people.
This is why images of our blue cities look like they were taken in Third World countries. Democrats don’t wait for Third Worlders to create these neglected and rundown conditions after arrival. They create those conditions and force black and white Americans left behind by globalization—which Democrats engineered—to live in them. Progressives and social democrats across the transatlantic space have prepared the conditions that foreigners are used to living in. At their invitation, Third Worlders flock there, reorganizing American and European cities by establishing ethnic enclaves and no-go zones. The Administrative State diverts our tax dollars to these enclaves by force and fraud and weaponizes empathy to subvert the national interest. Trump is undoing all this.
This is a grand strategy organized by the Democratic Party, obvious in its development and effect. Democrats make the new arrivals dependent on the government, just as they did to the black and brown Americans they’ve impoverished for decades. They do this so that they will become loyal to the Democratic Party. They get free health care, housing, and cash transfers. This is the paternalism I noted earlier. But progressives are not responsible parents. There is no demand to behave appropriately or fix the things their children break and neglect. Those who misbehave are not held to account. Instead, their behavior is excused by appeals to “root causes,” that is, the very conditions Democratic social policy has created. Progressives have destroyed the black family and cultivated a culture of disorder and violence. Woke judges release offenders from jail to prey upon the innocent. Why? “Racism.”
I am sure readers are familiar with Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, released in 1776, the same year American colonists declared their independence from the British monarchy. But seventeen years earlier, Smith wrote a lesser-known work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This book was his most important endeavor. There he writes, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” His point was that unchecked compassion for wrongdoers undermines justice and harms society. He argued that true justice sometimes requires severe punishment to prevent greater harm. He called for prioritizing comprehensive compassion for society over (misplaced) sympathy for the disordered. Why should there be mercy for the predator? What of his victim? Progressives have so demagnetized the moral compass of millions that now a large portion of the population sympathizes not with the victim, but with the victimizer.
This attitude is intrinsic to woke ideology. Progressives ally with the civilization destroyer and pit him against the creators and those whose labor makes better ideas a reality. Progressives manufacture instead docile and reactionary bodies—and import even more. The presence of such bodies is the fruit of their labors. Woke programmers disrupt the capacity of reason early on by teaching children that men can be women and that they must misgender those who demand affirmation for their delusion. They teach children to hate their nation by indoctrinating them with a revised history of America. They tell the white children under their command that they are privileged and owe non-whites an apology—and their future. Those who object are accused of bigotry and smeared with racial epithets.
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Talking heads like Steele exist to manufacture the perception that level-headed Republicans agree with the warped worldview he promulgates. Steele and his ilk appeal to “moderation.” MAGA is extreme, the public is told, and good Americans reject extremism.
Remember the Arizona Senator and libertarian fundamentalist Barry Goldwater’s famous line, delivered in his 1964 Republican National Convention acceptance speech? “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!” The presidential hopeful followed that with this: “And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” The corporate media used those lines to manufacture a moral panic that helped Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society scheme ascend to power. But the people now see what that was all about. The worm is turning. The people have had a bellyful of it.
Bannon put the situation brilliantly on Saturday morning on the War Room: American citizens are in steerage on their own ship. I will add to Bannon’s metaphor that the ship’s captain is a transnationalist. Such a captain does not care about his passengers. And he cares only about his crew as long as they follow commands. Pursuing this metaphor to its necessary end, it’s time for mutiny. Our ship is headed for the rocks. Those who believe in the promise of America have to assume command of the vessel and right the ship. There is no room for moderation in this struggle. Republicans in the Southern states must be ruthless in their mapmaking. If this appears extreme, it is only because the extremism of those who have tribalized us, who have walked the nation well down the path to serfdom, has made ruthlessness necessary.
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