The poverty of white nationalism

Over the last decade, once-fringe views on race and American identity have taken over important sectors of the US Right. These include the belief that people from some cultures aren’t capable of assimilating; that the fate of the country turns on keeping it as white as possible; and that Democrats are importing foreign voters to cement a permanent majority. It isn’t unusual to hear pundits and lawmakers from the mainstream of the conservative movement giving voice to some or all of these sentiments. White nationalism’s shift — from the peripheries to the center — forms the premise of Scott Greer’s new book, Whitepill. Greer himself has views that can charitably be described as white-nationalist-adjacent. He has written skeptically about color-blindness on the grounds that it “could just me