James Kirkpatrick, VDARE, December 26, 2019

The idea of America “Balkanizing,” or breaking into different areas of “red states” and “blue states,” is a false hope. It’s not going to happen. Balkanization, or a USSR-style breakup, presupposes the regional leaders are chafing under the central authority and will do everything they can to increase their own autonomy and political power. Yet that’s not what’s happening. Instead, Republican governors are going out of their way to welcome more Third World “refugees,” even though these populations will vote against the GOP and turn once conservative red states into solid blue states.

How to explain this? My theory is that for many (if not most) Republican politicians, political victory is not the goal. The goal is what comes after a career in politics, namely a job on a corporate board or as a lobbyist. For Democrats, state power is the tool used to crush their political enemies and keep themselves in power. For Republicans, state power is the tool used to financially reward their donors and secure a comfortable retirement, far away from the consequences of political defeat.

This is also why you don’t have many “conservatives with platforms” talking about this. A “platform” requires money, and with few exceptions, those who fund such platforms want Open Borders and cheap labor. If someone like Michelle Malkin starts going off-script, he or she loses their platform. Those left behind are cowards, cynics, or outright morons. That’s why the Conservative Political Action Conference and controlled opposition groups like Turning Point USA are such transparent rackets.

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