One of the intellectual heavyweights that emerged on the American right was Jeremy Carl, author of the book The Unprotected Class which analyzes the effects of the Civil Rights era policies against white Americans. The cover features a real image that reads “Kill All Whits” and discusses the subject of anti-white racism. Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, which is a major institution in the realm of Conservative think tanks. Carl’s work served to mainstream the idea to normal, everyday people of anti-white racism. The Trump Administration’s efforts to resettle South African refugees fleeing violent black people was made possible by the work of Carl and others like him. Regardless of how blatant its effects are, people still need “permission” to acknowledge it and so his work helped move the Overton Window.
Last year, it was announced that Carl would be joining the Trump Administration for the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. Rather than immediately affirming Trump’s nominees as the party in power, the GOP Senate under John Thune spent the entire year slow-rolling Trump’s appointments and taking measures to prevent Trump from implementing recess appointments to fill the vacancies in his administration.
On March 10th, Carl announced his withdrawal from consideration:
This will be a bit more formal than usual, but I wanted to announce that I am withdrawing my nomination for consideration as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. I am tremendously grateful to President Trump for nominating me and then (upon expiration of my original nomination) renominating me for this role, and I am also grateful to Secretary Rubio and his team for their continued support throughout this long and time-consuming process.
The fact that they chose to nominate me and were so supportive of my candidacy was one of many indications that this is an administration that was not satisfied to simply do business as usual nor to simply pick nominees from the same stable of “business as usual” possibilities.
Unfortunately, for senior positions such as this one, the support of the President and Secretary of State is very important but not sufficient. We also needed the unanimous support of every GOP Senator on the Committee on Foreign Relations, given the unanimous opposition of Senate Democrats to my candidacy, and unfortunately, at this time this unanimous support was not forthcoming.
Under our Constitutional system, that is the role that the Senate has in deciding Presidential appointments at this level and I accept that political reality, and do not wish to have the President, Secretary Rubio, or the rest of his team waste valuable time and energy attempting to change that decision.
I remain extremely confident in President Trump, Secretary Rubio, and the rest of the outstanding team at State (a group of leaders that includes many close friends). I know they will continue to pursue a foreign policy that puts America first, and that they will work to ensure America is able to exercise its power and influence in the world like never before.
Carl acknowledges that he lacks the support of the Senate to be confirmed by the Senate and for this reason, has withdrawn. During his confirmation hearings, which took place in mid-February, there were several viral moments that emerged.
The first of which involved Senator Cory Booker asking Carl about the Great Replacement, in which he articulated that the Democrat party’s immigration policy correlates with white replacement. Booker frames the notion of more minorities weakening America as farcical and ridiculous when it is statistically true.
The second involved Senator John Curtis, the GOP senator from Utah who replaced Mitt Romney. Curtis grilled Carl over his mild critiques of Israel in which he said that “the US spends too much time and energy on Israel—often to the detriment of our own national interest.” Curtis is a blatant RINO in the Senate, serving on the Foreign Relations Committee, is a barrier to Carl’s advancement. Currently, Curtis stands against lifting the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act. Back in December, Curtis went on CNN and said, “All of us need to wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and say ‘What am I doing specifically today to make all of our immigrants feel more welcome?’” Unsurprisingly, Senator Curtis of Utah is Mormon and is another example of why they are not trustworthy allies on the Right.
Conclusion
Many on the internet will complain about the actions (or inactions) of the Trump Administration when the president’s own Congress refuses to take the necessary steps to pass legislation. Unfortunately, with the midterms, Trump cannot go hard to the paint on several noncooperative members because they could sabotage his agenda in the near-term, like John Cornyn, who is against lifting the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act. The sad reality is that many GOP politicians long for the return of the George Bush Neoconservatism and to be the party of “respectable” opposition to the Democrats. John Curtis cares more about Israel than he does about anti-white racism in the country. These people do hate their own voters.
The failure to confirm Jeremy Carl does not mean one should disengage from the Administration or political process. Though the liberals of both parties blocked his nomination, there are still actual right-wing conservatives in the Administration and in the halls of Congress. They are typically at the lower rungs of the ladder, but entry into the system is the first step. Carl is but one man, and there are guys with more intense views on the Great Replacement inside the machine. For the Right to win, that depth needs to be developed. Politics is a marathon, not a sprint.
