Nativist, not ethnocentric. By Carl Benjamin.
The term “ethnonationalism” is a liberal fiction that is deliberately designed to mischaracterise nativism, a worldview which is the foundation of the modern nation state and the lodestone towards which all political activity hitherto was oriented.
“Ethnonationalism” means “for one group only”, whereas nativism means “for one group primarily”.
No sensible person believes that foreigners in our country ought to be outlaws, that is, that they are not entitled to the protection of the law nor have any rights under it. What sensible people object to is when foreigners are prioritised over the natives and the native claim to the land is eroded by demographic displacement.
The alternative to nativism is genocide (by replacement):
Nativism’s core claim is that our country is for us first, and that we have a right to maintain our demographic security in it. This is essentially uncontestible, because it would be called ethnic cleansing and genocide were it any other way. Indeed, this claim is regularly made when it applies to other countries.
This is why the mainstream types, Farage included, must use the lazy ideological mischaracterisation of “ethnonationalism” in order to mask and deny the fundamental truth of nativism’s position.
The native people of a country must have priority over non-native people when policy is decided and executive actions are taken because they have nowhere else to go. Non-native people always have the option of returning to their ancestral lands if the country in which they live is not being run to their liking. The natives do not.
This is non-negotiable.
You will meet remarkably few Americans who express genuine racial, ethnic, or other identity-based hatred/exclusionary feelings. Americans are incredibly kind, caring, giving people. Sometimes to their own detriment.
Still, the new version of the right we are seeing in America now (which is really just the manifestation of what the public has always wanted) is very nativist. It has to be nativist because Americans have gone through 50+ years of outright policy neglect by people in D.C. and even most state capitals.
Americans understand that they are not being put first in America, that their children are not being put first, that their families, towns, and their nation are not being put first. They can see when the priority of the Biden administration was illegal aliens and they have become angry that foreign countries are the focus of so much of the political class’ time and resources. …
Nativism has become and will remain the order of the day until the political class gets on board or gets replaced.
A ubiquitous leftist lie is that you are either like them — leaning towards open borders, and certainly in favor of mass migration from the third world — or a racist, white-Australia bigot. No in-between in their rhetorical world. It’s an insulting lie, obviously designed to discredit and cripple the social standing of anyone who opposes their plans to import a new people.