Well here we are in 2026.
The entire left wants to obliterate “whiteness” and everything associated with it (particularly Western civilization, which is their real target anyway). That appears to mostly include white people themselves, and strangely enough by whites themselves who are certain that for their lifetimes their money and privilege will protect them.
The extreme right, on the other hand, wants to eradicate all non-white influences in the United States. They too want Western culture displaced because it finds its beginnings with the Greeks (who they might grudgingly accept) and even earlier the Jooooos (who they hate more than any other minority).
So where does that leave us — MAGA, traditional Americans, evangelicals, and normies? It leaves us perhaps irreducibly and uncomfortably in the liberal camp.
I know. I dry-heaved for an hour after realizing it.
Gross as that corrupted version of the term “liberal” is, it’s fitting here. We MAGA and normie Americans desperately want lives liberated of the ancient evils — tyranny, exploitation of the poor by those in power, multi-tiered justice, and hatred on the basis of genetics or appearance.
For a while, America made some incredible progress, but as we retreat from the 1990s and the End of History, the old evils are coming back — particularly hatred based on genetics and appearance. The extermination of whiteness comprises a massive amount of the left side of the political spectrum. The excision of all things non-white comprises a larger portion of the right side of the spectrum than it has in decades.
There are complex reasons for all of this, but I keep going back to a discussion from Star Trek of all things.
The scene is a bar during a brutal war. On one side are the humanoids we’re used to in Star Trek — you know, humans and the aliens that somehow always have two arms, two legs, and one head. On the other is a vast race of shapeshifters who are basically puddles of goo in their natural form. Both sides historically persecuted and exploited each other.
The bartender is chatting with the only shapeshifter on the humanoids’ side, who is experiencing bigotry.
Bartender: “You’re smart enough to know that people don’t want to be reminded that you’re different. Who wants to see somebody turn into goo?”
Shapeshifter: “Why shouldn’t I?”