Bearing Drift: “There was a time when the memory of the hideous behavior of the 1930s “America First” committee was enough to keep any decent politician away from that moniker. Whether memory or decency has faded from the Republican political class is a question I leave to others….The “America First” caucus may have been scotched, but the idea was more evidence that the GOP defines “American” as anyone who looks and thinks like they do – and no one else. The language in their would-have-been “policy platform” (find the link yourself; it’s all over Twitter) is a toxic brew of dog-whistles, racist call-outs, and historical errors. I’ll address them one at a time.
America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions…
This may come as a surprise to the Scotch-Irish-Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War, to say nothing of their ancestors north of Hadrian’s Wall who formed their own Parliament in the 13th Century … or the Irish-Americans who bore the brunt of “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” That Paul Gosar (himself a Catholic) would somehow miss that is … well, he’s not the brightest bit of galactic dust, so there’s that.
Moving on, A1C strangely goes back to linguistic legerdemain to pretend they really mean “just white people welcome.”…”