2. The other thing though is that for the ethnonationalist right, increasingly ascendent in today's GOP, the "whiteness" status of groups like the Irish and Jews is still is dispute,
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3. You might think that the "whiteness" of Irish Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews was settled a long time ago in America, say 1945 at the latest. But in fact, there's an element of the right that has never been fully comfortable with that expansion of whiteness.
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4. This can be most clearly seen in the writing of the late Samuel T. Francis, the paleo-conservative thinker whose writings of 1980s and 1990s anticipate Trumpism in many ways. Francis always made a distinction between White Anglo Protestant core America & rest
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5. In his book Beautiful Losers (1994) Francis located the weakness of postwar Conservative intellectual movement in fact that white anglo-Protestant core was underrepresented and it was dominated by Catholics (Buckley) and Jews (Strauss).
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6. I don't think we should read too much into this, it's probably a one-off insult. Especially since Irish Catholics do in fact make up a big chunk of the Trumpian right (Hannity, Conway, etc). But still shows how underlying beliefs can sometimes come to the surface.
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Isn't GOP just party of Trump now? So it's natural they're following in his footprints.
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Particularly moronic since so many Irish-Americans now think of themselves as Republicans.
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I don’t think we should dive too deep here. The Republican Party is an openly racist cult of sociopaths, proudly anti-intellectual, proudly bigoted, easily duped and fiercely stupid. That pretty much explains everything they do.
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They also want to make it clear that they can confer or deny white privilege at will.
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I think there's a point here, even if only incidental, and perhaps unconscious intent. I'm old enough to remember some very nasty epithets that were socially acceptable, of which 'Deepee' was the merest and mildest.
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