All of this seems so coordinated that it makes me wonder if this is all to keep the western working class fighting with foreign workers so that the ruling class can continue to exploit the native populace. It may also be a way to transfer the wealth to foreign entities the government can get rid of if they ever become a problem.
It is and it’s not new. Back in the 1920s it was industrial strategy to both import Italians/Blacks and stir up KKK activity in the same place to derail labor unionization. Amazon got caught with an internal brief talking about how they like diverse workplaces for that reason. Before the 2nd KKK the huge push for Jim Crow - realize there was about a decade and a half of post-Reconstruction Southern politics that was business as usual. You almost never hear about this era. Wonder why? The Southern elite used Jim Crow to derail the multiracial Populist movement.
Any working class movement has to be, whether it is nationalist or not, built explicitly on class solidarity within the in group at the least. That is to say, class consciousness and national consciousness fused. The only place that managed to resist this was deep Appalachia where the Christian Socialists successfully fused a rural proletarian revolt with American nationalism (fighting under the US flag at Blair Mountain; Blacks provided one fourth of the manpower and the first one gunned down was Black, like Crispus Attacks).
Progressivism is best understood as Americas native form of fascism. It emerged a little before real Fascism did (influenced it heavily) out of the same milieu of ideas. Fascism adapts itself to each culture that practices it, and Americas version preserved the cult of democracy even though Progressives are always, in practice, authoritarian. Progressivism has the same worship of the state, same totalitarian impulse, same preference for technocratic rule. Early 20th Century Progressives were way more extreme in what they called for (a standard army of labor conscripts, direct nationalization of all businesses, etc) but the attitudes of it never changed. Early Progressivism was White supremacist. Late Progressivism fused with the Frankfurt School and postmodernism and did a big flip (the real “big flip” of the 20th Century) to being a fascism of the minorities against the majority. But the ideas are the same shit in a new package.
Racial politics needs to keep that frame. Rich people are your ultimate enemy and the source of your problems. Minorities are either allies forced on you by circumstance or enemies. Which it is is their choice and a winning coalition probably isn’t going to include everybody or nobody. I only consider Christians and Orientals viable for this, which means your real practical choice comes down to if you want Latinos or Blacks in your coalition (it has to be Latinos, Blacks have chosen their side). Society after revolution has to be designed to decentralize power as much as possible, which means busting up the big companies as much as the government. Distributism seems like the most realistic take on what the goal looks like.
What will not happen is voting your way out of it. We already had Jews 1.0 and now there’s Jews 2.0 (Indians) and Trump is fully on board with both.
