Speechwriter Who Attended Conference With White Nationalists in 2016 Leaves White House
Before they were the alt right, they were the New Right, which later became the Paleoconservative movement, and now the triumphs of Trump are really the triumphs of the Paleoconservative world view. They, the extreme fringe minority that only grudgingly considered themselves Republican a decade ago, are finally large and in charge. There’s a direct thread that spools from Paul Weyrich through the organizations he created to present day that knits the religious right tightly together with nativists, nationalists, and our anti-immigrant crowd; before the Mencken club it was the Robert A Taft club.
If I were a christian and if I weren’t an atheist I would be praying daily for deliverance from this evil scourge and this seditious stain upon our nation’s soul.
The Mencken Club, which is named for the early 20th century journalist and satirist whose posthumously published diaries revealed racist views, is a small annual conference started in 2008 and regularly attended by well-known white nationalists such as Richard Spencer. The schedule for the 2016 conference listed panels and speeches by white nationalist Peter Brimelow and two writers, John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg, who were both fired in 2012 from the conservative magazine National Review for espousing racist views.Other speakers from the 2016 conference are regular contributors to the white nationalist website VDare. Jared Taylor, another leading white nationalist, can be heard at the conference in 2016 on Derbyshire’s radio show along with Brimelow.
The White House, which asked CNN to hold off on the story for several days last week declined to say when Beattie left the White House. Beattie’s email address at the White House, which worked until late Friday evening, was no longer active by Saturday.
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