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The battle of nations – who will rule the American southwest?

Are there any progressives left? Were there ever any?

Nearly everyone is a blood-and-soil nationalist for people they like. They may claim that they are individuals, that nations aren’t real, or that borders are artificial, but almost everyone has an exception. For certain groups, suddenly identity is real. Nationality becomes determined by ethnicity. Historical boundaries are no longer meaningless lines on a rock floating in space. Racial solidarity is no longer a troublesome relic of the past, but an inspiring sign of community and hope.

The late Lawrence Auster called partial dissents from liberalism the “unprincipled exceptions,” and warned that they were not enough to build an alternative to liberalism. Yet while ideas matter, they do not matter most. Ideas often flow from identity, and arguments are often after-the-fact rationalizations that justify the pursuit of concrete interests. The unprincipled exceptions, far from being intellectual detritus, tell us what a person really values and who he really is.

The recent riots in Los Angeles are especially instructive. They were set off when Immigration and Customs Enforcement dared to enforce the law in Los Angeles. A week of scattered riots has been the result, and there is no sign of calm. In fact, unrest may be spreading nationwide, as anti-ICE protests may link up with the “No Kings” anti-Trump marches that will take place tomorrow. Saturday will also be the 250th anniversary of the United States Army, which will be celebrated with a parade in Washington D.C.  This too may be marked by protests.

Even the New York Times admitted that the defining images of the protests are crowds carrying Mexican flags. “Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them,” it said. “The Mexican flag has become the defining symbol of the Los Angeles protests,” said CNN. The Sacramento Bee urged “Trump protesters” to “Put Down The Mexican Flags,” recalling that protests under foreign flags are what helped Proposition 187 to pass in 1994 with almost 60 percent of the vote.

Yet the Bee recalled that those protesters won in the end:

Technically, opponents of the measure eventually would win. Courts ruled that Prop. 187 was unconstitutional. But the political damage for supporters of immigrants would extend far beyond that single election. Prop. 187’s passage, aided by the visual narrative of foreign flags at protests, helped transform California politics for a generation — but not necessarily in the way protesters intended. While an entirely new generation of Latino political activism was stirred by the heated passion of that campaign, so too was an anti-immigrant fervor that consumed California politics for a generation.

Did it matter? A few California Republicans made political hay from anti-immigration sentiment; even Arnold Schwarzenegger gestured against illegal immigration when he ran for governor. Yet social services weren’t cut off and the Great Replacement continued. State government was not willing to defy a court that overruled a referendum; California is becoming culturally Mexican, if not yet politically. Our rulers imposed a demographic revolution on the Golden State, against the will of the voters, and won.

Today, is California really part of the United States? The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, says the ICE raids were “the cause of the problems that have happened in the city of Los Angeles.” If immigration law can’t be enforced in Los Angeles, that shows that they should have been enforced far more stringently in the past. The longer the problem is ignored, the worse it gets. Karen Bass, when in Congress, was among those who used deceitful statistics from the Anti-Defamation League to call for more censorship against white advocates, so we cannot call her stance a principled opposition to government overreach.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said that “democracy is under assault before our eyes.” Dispatching troops for riot control is not an attack on democracy; it is hardly unknown in Third-World Los Angeles. If “democracy” meant anything, Proposition 187 would have gone into effect, California would be a different place, and Gavin Newsom would probably not be governor. Instead, illegal immigrants arrested by the LAPD will not be handed over to ICE for deportation. When Charlie Kirk pointed out the racial replacement of whites in Los Angeles using a graph designed by American Renaissance, Media Matters said it was a “racist myth.” It is because it is obviously not a myth that we have riots.

In a Politico article called “Why Los Angeles protesters fly the Mexican flag,” an activist named Angelica Salas said, “it’s really about saying we’re American, Mexican American, and we’re not ashamed of being Mexican.” Brittany Wong at The Huffington Post said liberals worried about optics are not in a position to tell an “oppressed community” how it can react to a “racist assault.” Besides, it’s “debatable” whether the Mexican flag is “foreign” to Los Angeles. “Maybe at this point in history, the Mexican flag is a stand-in for all migrants and for those that support them,” said a professor of “Chicano/a Studies.” Gustavo Arellano at the Los Angeles Times dismissed the flag as a “piece of cloth” but combined this tactical nihilism with approval for Hispanics waving foreign flags that actually “give them a sense of pride.” The New York Times said the flag “represented [protesters’] Chicano roots rather than a national allegiance.”

Many of the protesters are clear about their loyalties. They are in the streets because they are Mexican, they see southern California as Mexican, and they don’t believe federal authority or immigration laws should apply there. Journalists, celebrities, and influencers echo this: because California once (briefly) belonged to Mexico, immigration laws don’t apply. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed a racial exemption to immigration laws on the grounds that Hispanics are really Indians, and therefore the true owners of America.

Demonstrators clearly do not want to wave the American flag. They want their flags. We should commend them for their honesty.

The protests are spreading.

Some of the most popular posts on X claim that because California was once Mexico, it should be Mexico again. The Mexican government echoes this line.

This problem could have been solved. Political leaders like Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo and intellectuals like Samuel Huntington warned against mass Hispanic immigration. Their predictions have come to pass. Nervous talk about immigrants wanting to be Americans or that Los Angeles was “peaceful” before federal officials dared to enforce immigration law is hard to take seriously when protesters are clear about their views.

America will be ruled by “racists” and ethnic nationalists. The only choice question is whether it will be ours or theirs. Territorial irredentism, nationalism, and even imperialism are wonderful for non-whites. This century will be the Century of Identity. Conventional measures of national power such as military capability, economic potential, or government effectiveness are less important than the racial consciousness of competing groups. Those without a collective identity will be consumed by those who have one.

The attempt to enact the bare minimum of civic nationalism by enforcing the law in Los Angeles has accomplished little except to reveal the contempt millions of “Americans” have for our country, its history, and its people. There are only three possibilities. If American identity cannot be saved, white identity must take its place. If American identity can be saved, white identity must precede it and be its basis. If neither white identity nor American identity are salvageable, foreign nationalists will rule over the ruin of what was once the United States. What will never happen is a “post-racial” America of atomized “individuals.” The protests in Los Angeles show almost no one really believes that anymore, if they ever did.

This article originally appeared on American Renaissance and is republished by The Noticer with permission.

Header image credit: Cam Higby (X).

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