@August 1, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yoram-hazony.html
Yoram Hazony thinks America was built by a certain strain of white people, it’s lost respect for that strain of white people, and it should return to that. It’s not that immigrants are bad; it’s that they’re not what makes America great. Rather, it’s the strain of white people who accept and empower the right kind of immigrants to be successful in our country. The right kind of white guy is JD Vance and the right kind of immigrant is Usha Vance.
The funny thing is that I don’t disagree… and I don’t think a lot of Latinos, Indians, or Arabs would disagree, particularly considering how these groups swung to Trump in 2024.
It is pretty remarkable how the American white has made a culture that can let people like me be who I want to be. They deserve the credit full stop; it’s not like India has figured it all out (though it could one day, who knows?).
The peculiar tension is how American blacks fits in. For all the credit the white wants, the black has never been made whole for his oppression. Of course, people have weaponized this because the reality is: what could possibly solve 400 years of oppression?
National conservatism seems to never really address this. More in this ChatGPT convo: https://chatgpt.com/c/688cd345-75e0-832e-8790-19ae191f3b7e
What a fatal flaw for a theory.