Auron MacIntyre Interviews Peter Brimelow
Among other things, bring on the fistfight over a Constitutional Amendment abolishing Birthright Citizenship!
Peter Brimelow writes: I am most grateful to Auron MacIntyre for interviewing me on June 22. It produced an impressive flow of new subscribers to this substack (it’s free, but some heroic individuals paid!). We covered a lot of ground—including my contention that the recent Makerfield byelection, literally held in my and John Derbyshire’s ancestral hearth of Wigan, was actually a strong result for British immigration patriots, masked by poor expectation management and the usual media mendacity. The whole thing is viewable below. But here I’m just transcribing our discussion of the imminent U.S. Supreme Court decision on Birthright Citizenship, the jugular of the Great Replacement, which begins at 43:57.
p.s. I had a haircut today
Peter Brimelow: The other issue, as you have mentioned, is Birthright Citizenship. God knows what the Roberts court is going to do. He’s not distinguished by courage in these areas. But it doesn’t actually matter because what we’re talking about is an Executive Order.
At VDARE.com, we were writing about Birthright Citizenship, the need to cut it off, for 25 years but it never occurred to us that it could be done by Executive Order. We assumed it was going to have to be done by statute, there are ways to do it, or by a Constitutional Amendment. If it was done by Executive Order, that could be reversed,
What we need, of course, is to get this issue into politics, because most Americans have absolutely no idea at all that, if you come here illegally, or even as a tourist, and have a child here, that child’s an American citizen.
And not only do they have no idea about it, when they discover it they get extremely angry. They think that the whole thing is crazy, as of course it is.
That’s why I like the idea of a Constitutional Amendment. That has to be ratified by two-thirds of the states. So in two-thirds of the states, there has to be a fistfight over whether or not we should have Birthright Citizenship.
Make the Democrats stand up and justify it. That’s going to do them no good at all with Americans.
I would like to think that the Trump Administration has a whole battery of responses to a bad ruling---there are both moves to get a Constitutional Amendment and also statutory reform introduced in the House at the moment. They’ve just not been taken up by the Republican leadership.
They should be taken up if this decision goes the wrong way. They should be taken up right away—immediately.
I’d like to think the Trump Administration is well prepared for that, but, you know he’s had all these foreign wars to fight. and stuff like that.
But I am confident Steven Miller is thinking about it.
Well done, Peter, and I enjoyed your estimation of Buckley. Former Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who I knew from my years as a newspaper reporter, attended one of Buckley's later day (twilight) bacchanals and apparently it was something of a scene. You know far more from personal experience, but Buckley seemed to me to simply abandon his nation and his intellectual honesty (to say nothing of common sense) in exchange for continued adoration from the elite/neocon world and even a pittance of acceptance from the Hollywood and academic Left. Your 'expulsion' from NR was the darkly absurd result of the neoconification of the movement (like Larry Kudlow's denouncement of you for attending his birthday party as invited...), as was the declaration by Kristol/Goldberg et al that painted Buchanan as a heretic, etc. Neocons are now a dead letter society.
As for Trump and your estimation of the U.S., I am afraid I don't share it.
The surrender of Minnesota was such a stunningly profound failure on the administration's part that I think it will prove ultimately fatal to whatever remains of the domestic immigration agenda. Minnesota was the golden opportunity to send in the troops (150,000 of them, not 600), establish operations control of the state from top to bottom, arrest the officials brazenly leading an armed insurrection, seize the initiative and restore order while making a clear example of what other states and locales could expect when federal primacy was violently challenged on the issue of immigration.
Instead, he choked. Trump declared victory of course (probably having a new gold coin minted to celebrate the biggest win ever...) and quickly launched the war with Iran just weeks later, but for the progressive Left it was an electrifying win that has further emboldened their movement. The hour grows late and The Post-American Age in the United States draws near.
Cheers on your interview!
~ Mark
I like the idea of a Constitutional Amendment. That has to be ratified by two-thirds of the states. So in two-thirds of the states, there has to be a fistfight over whether or not we should have Birthright Citizenship. Make the Democrats stand up and justify it. That’s going to do them no good at all with Americans.