Hyphenationalism and "Ethnic Liberty"

Against Conventional Nationalism in the Contemporary American Context

In order to survive into the future, White Americans must understand and embrace devolutionary trends and their potential place in the devolutionary trends defining our current and future social and political dynamics. In essence, we must understand and comport ourselves as immigrants and aliens in our own land, as yet another group of “Hyphenated Americans” in a federal political order that doesn’t align with any particular ethnic group.

The best possible outcome for our identity, the founding stock “White American” ethnic group, would have been for the nationalizing process Roosevelt and others imagined at the turn of the 20th century.

The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 marked a decisive move in the direction of melting the “hyphenated” European immigrant communities into a common American identity. It’s not clear how the Black Question would have been answered in the long-term. After Lincoln’s assassination, there was no hope of decisive action towards some kind of genuinely nationalist solution to the presence of millions of Black Americans. Unlike Germans and Italians, Black Americans are largely incapable of assimilating into White American ethnic life even if there were no resistance.

One could indulge in a great deal of alt-history speculation on what might have been, but three factors converged in the wake of WWII to permanently sever the American ethnicity from the American state. First, the wartime allied propaganda resulted in generations of intensive anti-nationalist moralization. Second, the Cold War geopolitical tensions favored an “anti-racist” messaging in international affairs that had to be reconciled with domestic attitudes and affairs. Third, millions of Jews fled to America from Europe with fiercely anti-nationalist sentiments and anti-White grudges.

The debate over the relative weight of those three factors is uninteresting to me. What’s beyond doubt is that unhyphenated nationalism no longer makes sense in the American context. Hell, it doesn’t even make sense in the White Nationalist context. The neonazis and groypers who dominate the social media space are both openly hostile to unhyphenated founding stock Americans and seek to oppose them with respectively Continental Germanic or Latin American White Supremacist cultural revolutions.

Unhyphenated Nationalism in the contemporary sense now necessarily entails a Starship Troopers style of post-racial “civic” nationalism, somewhat akin to Eric Kaufmann’s “White Shift” model where ethnic and racial Whiteness goes the way of ethnic and racial Englishness, sublimated into a racially universalized whole. As a racial essentialist, I reject that future for my identity. My heritage, culture, and style of life is inextricably entangled in the dispositions and inclinations peculiar to my race.

Christian Nationalism necessarily entails a similar sublimation, with a consensus Christianity more monstrous than the most compromised particular denomination could possibly be. Why imagine that a successful and dominant Christian Nationalism would be traditionalist rather than the least common denominator of liberal, secular, televangelical buffoonery.

In both the religious and ethnic case, what our demand ought to be is classically liberal in nature: religious liberty and now ethnic liberty. The latter is as simple as affording Whites the same Freedom of Association and Freedom from Association that every other ethnic and racial group already enjoys. With that realistic step, we Whites will be able to have our own neighborhoods, subdivisions, and civic organizations with our own privatized community resources.

Many don’t even realize that civil rights act precedent currently maintains a blatant double standard where only we’re not allowed to do that. And many, including many immigrants and minorities would have no objection to Whites self-segregating as long as they were not encumbering their own access to public services and spaces.

This hyphenationalism would entail identifying and investing in the development of White communities and civic clubs, beginning at the grassroots neighborhood level and very carefully growing up and out from there. Each of these would not be merely “White,” but Catholic, Orthodox, a Protestant denomination, a folkish project, or a secular fraternity with shared priorities and values. In short, being “White” isn’t an identity in and of itself.

This strategy is tried and proven, demonstrated by numerous insular and endogamous ethnic communities in the United States, a few of which even outperform White Americans by key indicators. America’s mass society was redeemable at some point, but that hour has passed, and you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to get yourself and them into a civic, ethnic “life boat” comprised of people who wish to maintain high trust lifestyles and behaviors that are no longer compatible with American public life.

The hour to begin this work is now, as the people who were most intensely brainwashed by the allied propaganda against nationalism are passing away in the coming decade or so. The geopolitical conditions have changed dramatically, with the neoliberal anti-White consensus being replaced by an Orbanist/Trumpist vision that’s not anti-White. And finally, the devolutionary and geopolitical realities of the current decade have both dramatically deleveraged Jewish Power while distracting the Jewish community from their ancient grudge against Christians of European descent.

While the situation may well be different in places like Ireland or Poland that can still be credibly understood as ethnostates, hypernationalism in America must be replaced by a renewed hyphenationalism, one with enclavist, ethnarchist, and organically anglo-libertarian foundations.