I actually read this as an acknowledgement that the idealogy that some people call "cuckservatism" has no appeal to people who aren't elite whites, and thus we need a Right that is let us say, alternative.
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I'm very much of the opinion the only way to fight the racial resentment peddlers is to peddle non-racial resentment - because it's obvious to anyone outside of the blessed elite that there is a lot in modern society worth being resentful about.
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I don't think any sort of resentment can form the basis of a stable political order
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I think it can. The ruling coalition in Israel is largely powered by resentment (against both terrorism and elite Askenazi liberals). Same as the AKP in Turkey, the BJP in India, and to a large degree, the CPC in China.
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I see all those parties as simply representing the interests of the religiously conservative middle and lower middle classes.
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I actually have always wondered what stops the GOP from being more like all of those parties and I guess it's our traditionally secular politics and lack of a unifying religious identity on the right
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"religiously conservative middle-class" in America, we call those people Republicans. I don't think American politics is secular at all, especially when considered to Canada, the UK, etc. etc. In fact, very similar to Turkey/India with religious middle class + secular elite.
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It's probably somewhere in between UK/Canada and India/Israel/Turkey. My view is that religion is pretty much the only effective organizing principle for the lower middle class
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I don't think you even need a common religion or culture. What about the very diverse Ford Nation in multicultural Canada, which is popular among non-whites? A Rob Ford-style coalition would win a supermajority in the relatively downscale America.
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