If we get Kobach at DHS, and Jeff Sessions as AG, we won't worry about what Betsy DeVos gets up to.

Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively at VDARE.com.

It was a joyous Thanksgiving for us immigration patriots, as our man continues interviewing for his executive team while the nation echoes to the festive sound of liberals' heads exploding. [Bang!] Oh, there goes another one. Happy, happy days!



As we go to press, The Donald is taking a Thanksgiving break with the family down at his spread in Palm Beach, Florida. [ Al fresco in Florida! Donald Trump shares a cozy dinner with Melania, son Barron and two friends on the second night of his 'brief break in the action' at Mar-a-Lago, By Geoff Earle, Dailymail.com, November 24, 2016] Sincere wishes from us here to them there for a cheerful and relaxing long weekend.

This follows a week of firming up some lower-level picks for the Trump cabinet. We got Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo as nominee for CIA Director, a post which needs Senate confirmation, and General Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, which doesn't.

I can't claim to know much about either person. But they are hated by all the right people, so that's good. In the case of National Security Advisor, it's also hopeful to look at who General Flynn is replacing: Mulatto Mafia diversicrat Susan Rice, eager camp follower of Mrs. Clinton and one of Radio Derb's designated Three Horsegirls of the Libyan Apocalypse, the other two being Samantha Power and the Hildebeest itself. Gen. Flynn can only be an improvement. Read more >>

Donald Trump's election triumph is among the more astonishing in history.

Yet if he wishes to become the father of a new "America First" majority party, he must make good on his solemn promise:

To end the trade deficits that have bled our country of scores of thousands Read more >>

See also: Brimelow At NPI: Trump’s America—The Next Shoe Will Drop In 2020

Needless to say, Richard Spencer’s misjudged conclusion to his NPI conference keynote speech, “Hail Trump, Hail our People, Hail Victory,” and a few of his more juvenile supporters’ Roman salute in response, was the top Main Stream Media story for days, with even President-elect Trump being required to “disavow” the Alt Right. As Peter Brimelow made clear, VDARE.com also “disavows” this behavior. American immigration patriotism has absolutely nothing to do with Nazi ideology. Allowing the MSM to strengthen this misinterpretation is folly. But the unpleasantness at NPI and the MSM’s reaction must be set in perspective.

CNN headlined "Alt Right Founder Questions if Jews are People," which dozens of other Main Stream Media outlets repeated. But in fact Spencer had referred to Republican political consultants as “soulless Golems” without even mentioning Jews.  [ SURPRISE! CNN Makes A False Claim And Press Picks It Up , by Alex Pfeiffer, Daily Caller, November 21, 2016]

Spencer himself did not give the salute. Neither Spencer nor anyone at the conference called for violence. But there was violence—from "anti-racist" protesters relentlessly attacking NPI’s right to peacefully assemble, with minimal interference by the D.C. police or coverage from the MSM.

Moreover, despite Richard Spencer’s knack f Read more >>

The DRUDGE REPORT'S headline now is AMERICANS HAVE MOST HOPE IN DECADE!

Bloomberg News isn't as sure of why that is as you, I and Matt Drudge are. Their headline on that story is "Soaring Consumer Confidence: Are Americans Happy It's Trump, or Just Happy It's Over?"

But the confidence is real. See Bloomberg chart below.



Maybe they're happy Obama is over, although of course it would be racist to say so.

Not every American is happy--as Ann Coulter notes below, a lot of Democrats need cheering up. So do a lot of Republican political consultants. I remember that when George H. W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton in '92, some conservative writer recounted the story of the child of a Bush I Administration staffer asking his mother "Does that mean Daddy is out of a job?" The mother said "No, dear, it means everyone we know is out of a job."

Now that's going to happen not only to the Obama Administration's Affirmative Action cases, but a lot of Establishment Republicans and Campaign Consultants who would have been hired by a Jeb Bush administration. (They'll hang around doing something, though--one reason they "Never Go Back To Pocatello" is that the political class is no damned use to private industry.)

This Thanksgiving, there'll be the usual Vox and NYT stories about how righteous young people should deal with their Trump-voting relatives from "Your Father's America", which may include your actual father--the guy who paid for college--and which assumes that there no young Trump voters and old Socialists.

I just want to remind the people who are having these arguments that nothing like that is going on around black, Muslim,  or Mexican immigrant dinner tables at this time of year--they're all agreed on hating both of you.

See The Cold Civil War On Thanksgiving–Thanksgiving Table Arguments About “Racism” Are Only Happening In White Families.

There is a War On Thanksgiving (too white, too Christian, too American, and unpopular with Indians) the same as their is a War On Christmas, but I'm too grateful to be going on about that now.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and if you have nothing else to do, check out our archive of Thanksgiving columns from previous years.

VDARE.com wishes you a happy and united thanksgiving!

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VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: Like other participants, I’m furious with National Policy Institute President Richard Spencer for undercutting NPI’s D.C. conference triumph with his “Hail Victory” final words (see his defense here ). This inevitably detracted from the important things the rest of us had to say, such as my own address, which follows.

Thank you, Richard. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

I’ve been here a lot longer than most of you! [ Richard had just established that most attendees were under 30]. I came to the U.S. in 1970 to go to the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. But I’ve learned from bitter experience that I must give up any hope of people understanding my accent! So if you can’t understand me, or if you think I should speak more directly into the microphone or anything helpful like that, please raise a fiery cross or some other cultural symbol, and I will redouble my efforts to assimilate acoustically.

Of course, I can’t claim to be a member, really, of the Alt-Right. I’m too damned old! I’m actually the same age as Hillary, within a few days. (But I’m not quite as old as Trump!)

And the second reason I can’t really claim to be a member of the Alt-Right is: I don’t like haircuts!

But I do think I can claim to be, not a godfather of the Alt Right, but sort of a god-uncle or something like that—for reasons I will go into in a minute.

Now, I pried the the subject of my talk out of Richard about 36 hours ago and he subsequently changed it,  but the subject he gave me was “Trump’s America.” So that’s what he’s going to get.

It’s an appropriate subject because Trump and Steve Bannon are not Alt-Right people, they’re certainly not white nationalists. Trump, in particular, is endlessly going on about how much he loves minorities and tacos and so on. White nationalists tend not to do that!

But Trump has, and Bannon with him, opportunistically grabbed powerful issues that the Alt-Right and white nationalists are interested in—and no one else is interested in them, certainly no one in the Republican Establishment: for example, immigration and Political Correctness.

And with those issues, he slaughtered his way to the Presidency. He’s left a trail of bodies behind him extending back 17 months now. It’s the most extraordinary thing that I’ve ever seen. You’ll never see another election like this.

What Trump has done, what he has assembled, his America, is a civic nationalist coalition. But it does have a white core that is implicitly ethno-nationalist. And I’m going to say, this is just the beginning.

Kevin Macdonald has this concept of an implicit community, communities that get together for reasons that they do not articulate and probably do not fully understand. The granddaddy of implicit communities, of course, is the Republican Party, which is fundamentally a white organization. Read more >>