GOP Senator Draws Outrage After Speech on Who America "Belongs To"
By: Robert McCoy (The New Republic)
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Republican Senator Erich Schmitt is openly embracing white nationalism.
At the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri proposed a new direction for his party—essentially arguing for the self-styled "party of Lincoln" to abandon Lincoln for white nationalism.
Schmitt's speech took issue with the "old conservative establishment" for embracing legal immigration, instead positing that there are select true Americans to whom the country belongs.
"That's what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract 'proposition,' but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests," Schmitt said. The Continental Army soldiers at Valley Forge, Pilgrims at Plymouth, pioneers in Missouri, and "Kentucky settlers repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks," Schmitt said, "believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It's our birthright, our heritage, our destiny," the senator continued. "If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that's not true."
He went on: "When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our history, and insult our traditions, they're attacking our future as well as our past. By changing the stories we tell about ourselves, they believe they can build a new America—with the new myths of a new people. But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It's our home. It's a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist."
Schmitt failed to include any nonwhite people in the true-American pile. He did, however, include his German ancestors, who came to America in the 1840s: a time when, he omitted to mention, arriving European immigrants were met with no shortage of nativist challenges to their American-ness.
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln—during his Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas—observed that much of the U.S. population could not trace their lineage to the Revolutionary era and Founding Fathers. These "men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here," he said, had no "connection with those days by blood."
But he affirmed their claim on America nonetheless: The Declaration of Independence's assertion that "all men are created equal," he said, makes them as much American "as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are."
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I do not consider any statue or monument to a confederate as "ours". They were not Americans; they rejected our constitution and wrote their own and we should never have put up monuments and memorials to them in the first place. This Republican Senator is effectively admitting he's not really an American but a conservative Christian Confederate as he is clearly claiming those monuments as his own and defending them as any confederate would.
The 21st century Republican Party, and conservatives in general, do not believe America should be a multicultural diverse society.
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Which I was against. The "left" is not a monolith. Only the monuments and memorials to Americas enemies, aka any confederate who abandoned our constitution and swore allegiance to the confederate constitution as every confederate soldier had to, should be removed.
‘ The "left" is not a monolith’
Opinions do vary but the actions of most on tje left contradict your post.
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What a load of bunk.
If you watch for all the white very likely Trump supporters who embrace him and clearly condone his behavior, you see this black man in whiteface fitting right in with rightwing MAGA America. I find this hilarious, and while some sour douche bags might try and claim this is somehow racist against white people, I find that even more hilarious.
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When he confronts the black NASCAR fan and keeps getting "Sir" in response, it really is telling about where America is still with race relations.
Funny skit.
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That guy has got bigger tits than a lot of women.
I have grown old dealing with these 'throwbacks' - they're disgusting people. I will not ever dignify one of them again. It's over. I am so over them. And yes, that includes the gregarious 'throw-backs' that can't or barely can hold their liquor! Over 'em!
As for the spitting, "good ole boy" would have an ass-whipping or worse coming if/when he spits in the direction of the right (black) man! Spit on me, and Jesus had better take the wheel.. . because I go temporarily insane and the rest is anybody's guess as to how it would end (if the Spirit does not come to 'calling' immediately).
As for the "boy' remarks. I am generally nice to all men. . . especially other older men of a certain age; I would not call somebody who labeled me a 'boy' - Sir. No way. That said, calling me "boy" would pass muster a lot faster than spitting on me!
What makes this comedy gold is that is a black man in white face (and white boob...)
This is what the comedian looks like in RL...
It really does highlight how all those other 'good ol' boys' were perfectly accepting of his behavior because it's not something they never see. While I know that isn't what the vast majority of rightwing white conservatives look like or act like, but they exist in enough numbers for this behavior to be considered normal among them 'behind closed doors' as it were.
Wow. Make-up can do amazing things nowadays! Just amazing. I see no trace of the man underneath. Although, I find it odd how 'drunken' his character/role was pulling off. It kind of throws criticism off and is a 'perfect' distraction. That said, I was convinced he was a white man with racist tendencies. Also, yes, I have known white men with character traits like this 'one' - without the spitting in the direction of people, nevertheless or the "boy" verbiage.
I've no doubt he was likely just slightly exaggerating some of the things he's experienced being a black man who attended college in Georgia which is why he's so convincing.
Clearly, he can 'freely associate' and mix with others.
I am similarly situated. As I like-love (all) people, in general. Damn, I love all people in my heart of hearts. 
Schmitt is obviously a worthless dweeb who should never have been elected and should be impeached ASAP. Don't need that trash in Comgress.
that goes for 99.9% of maga legislators ...
Right, and the same number of leftist liberal Dems are pure as the newfallen snow. Got it...
which of those same number of leftist liberals are supporting a convicted felon and traitor in the white house?
I cannot say, I have not counted them. Have you?
Members of Congress cannot be impeached. They can be expelled by a two-thirds vote of whichever chamber they are part of. What's the chance of getting enough Republicans in the House to vote for his expulsion?
The Vice-President is the President of the Senate, and can be impeached in his capacity as VP.
Okay, I see your point. Either way, his butt needs to be booted out of office. He is a embarrassment to the entire Congress not solely to the Republicans or the Democrats.
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