Gingrich, Miller Want to Make America White Again, But U.S. Needs New Blood

GOPers want more white babies, but Americans getting priced out of childrearing

Manny Otiko
Democracy Guardian
Published in
5 min readAug 6, 2021

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One of my recent articles said that white nationalism was a crucial part of the Republican Party platform. At first, I thought that was too harsh, and then I read the news. Former President Donald Trump might be out of the White House, but white supremacy hasn’t left the Republican Party.

It’s always been there. For example, while we might think Trumpism was shocking, it was a more blatant version of the kind of far-right idealogy espoused by Pat Buchanan. He was the former White House insider and presidential candidate who said America would be better if we imported more Irishmen than Zulus.

He often railed against the increasing number of nonwhite Americans and claimed that it would lower test scores. Trump was more open and cruder than Buchanan. However, these kinds of views have not gone away. Consider these recent stories:

No immigrants = more white people

At the recent Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference, Stephen Miller, the Jew with neo-Nazi tendencies, said we need to ban all forms of immigration, both legal and illegal. In Miller’s eyes, that would give the country a “break.” (Meaning maintaining the white majority.)

Again, this is not surprising. Miller, a former White House advisor, has been a longtime white supremacist and racist which is documented in the book “Race Baiter.” During the presentation, he also bragged about the minuscule number of refugees admitted during the Trump administration.

Miller once said that he planned to make sure no refugees set foot in America, even though his ancestors were refugees from Russia. But go figure. Hypocrisy is also a main feature of conservative politics. The so-called advocates of family values elected a thrice-married predator whose current…

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Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.