Pat Buchanan expresses the hope that "in the womb of white America" a "new people is gestating and fighting to be born." He is convinced that Middle America is already "beginning to assert its identity, unapologetically" as an ethno-nation alongside African-Americans, American Indians, native Hawaiians, and Hispanics.
In fact, what we are witnessing are the death throes of homo Americanus. Mr Buchanan recalls that another "new people ... the Americans" was born two hundred years ago in the colonial struggle to achieve independence from Great Britain. Then, the American Adam declared himself free of the excess historical baggage accumulated during the Dark Ages of Anglo-Saxon Christendom. Middle America is reaping the whirlwind sown in the revolutionary Enlightenment.
The Tea Parties are not symptoms of restored vigour in the body politic. Instead, middle-class white people, drawn mainly from the "founding race" of their senile, degenerate nation-state, are searching for a magic political elixir to bring the decrepit Constitutional Republic back to life.
Unlike Pat Buchanan, Jared Taylor doubts that Tea Party America represents a resurgent ethno-nationalism. but he's keeping an open mind. He acknowledges the implicit whiteness of the Tea Party movement, while noting that it shares that characteristic with opera companies and Renaissance festivals: "everyone there is white, and most like it that way but would never admit it -- even to themselves." America's pre-eminent racial realist will believe that the Tea Partiers are developing an explicit and unapologetic racial consciousness the day they "dump Sarah Palin and make Pat Buchanan their champion."
