Sam Francis and the Triple Melting Pot

Résumé du livre

Despite the claim that we are "one nation under God," America is a country of three nations or ethnic groups under God based on three religions, Protestant, Catholic, and Jew. Religion, in other words, is the source of ethnic identity in America. Author and commentator Sam Francis came from a time and place that had little to no understanding of ethnicity in America. Francis placed his hopes in a group he referred to as "Middle American Radicals." But, because he failed to understand how ethnicity worked in America, Sam Francis could not properly identify the group he chose to lead. He was a Protestant from the South who had abandoned his religion and did not know who he was. After being fired from the Washington Times, Sam abandoned conservatism in favor of white identity, and became the posthumous father of the Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement formed in the wake of the identity vacuum created by the sexual revolution. That movement followed the racial path that Sam adumbrated toward the end of his life, and it reached its apocalyptic culmination ten years after his death in Charlottesville.But the culture wars simply are not understandable in racial terms. Religious identity is the only bulwark against identity politics. Unlike "conservatism" or "whiteness" or any other confected identity, Catholicism confers an identity through baptism which cannot be taken away by those who police the precincts of identity politics. It guarantees protection from the predations of Satan and his synagogue on earth that no other identity can provide.