It’s true that most MAGA people are motivated by love of country, but I think the primary motivation is that we love our children. We want to leave our children with the proud legacy of American values. We know that if we fail, our children and grandchildren will pay the price.
Keep up the great work- I’m very glad I found your Substack. It gives me hope that people can change their minds.
I had read through a ton of your old blog posts, and I was entirely skeptical about these articles actually being genuine. A lot of people "switch sides" just to make a buck or buck a trend. Look at all the "former Republican" blue checkmark\MSNBC commenter types on Twitter etc. for examples of people going the other direction just for clout and money.
I don't think that is you. Not anymore. This piece proves you get it.
The only "white rage" on today's scene is that in the increasingly white upper echelons of the Democratic Party and their allied structures in media and academia - the rage of impotently watching the ethnic minorities they claim to speak for abandoning them ...
For you younger folks who might not have been around, the white rage card is pretty old & dog-eared.
It was played following the 1994 mid-terms, when the Clintons were delivered a thumping rebuke by voters. Dems lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
It was chalked up to “white male rage” as a way of delegitimizing the result.
So it’s the same ol’ song, played with the volume cranked way up.
I was awaiting your next column, and I'm glad this arrived today. It did not disappoint! The only thing I'd like to say, if I understood you correctly, Obama you say, did not have any scandals. Au contraire, he had fast and furious, in which the guns he sold to Mexican cartels we're used to kill a border patrol agent, benghazi, which could have been more Hillary Clinton who did not secure that compound where our ambassador asked her 600 times and four people died including that ambassador, then you have the tea party scandal he would not approve the 503c applications and directed the IRS and lois learner specifically to slow walk them, hurting the movement, and finally he spied on the Trump campaign. It's just that the media didn't report any of it and they gave him 24/7 glowing reviews. The opposite would be Trump where they never gave him a chance and gave him 24/7 negative coverage.
That's my take on that. Thanks for all that you do!
Leftists/Dimocrats are STILL TODAY practitioners of enslavement & eugenics. Who suffered the most under Dimocrat policies? Whether it's coercive lockdowns, skyrocketing crime & inflation, failing public schools, an unsecured border allowing drug & human trafficking, allowing China & slave labor domination, etc., it's always poor, often minorities & vulnerable populations who suffer most. White Republicans are right to be enraged about that.
This is a great piece, thank you. I am not a big fan of Trump as a person (and sorry, I always was creeped out by Obama), but I am that most horrible of beings, a conservative, Christian, happily married for nearly 30 years, homeschooled and raised NORMAL kids, non-profit (not a lefty cause) founder.
When Obama was pushing Obamacare, a high school friend sent me a long rant on Facebook about how I was a RACIST RACIST RACIST because I didn't support it. (And btw every single thing I said would happen has happened, so there's that.) I sent her back a very measured reply that, since I had founded and run a nonprofit in UGANDA where I am in a very distinct minority (3% white "mzungus"), it was a pretty big stretch to decide I didn't like a crappy government program sure to cost me a crap-ton of money and make my own healthcare terrible because... checks notes... Obama is black. I told her I was giving her a day and making sure I knew she'd read it, then unfriending her - because who needs that crap??
I don't like crowds so don't go to rallies, and my social media is 100% apolitical. But I vote. And I raised kids who can think, see, and vote. I live in a very red county (78% in the last election) where a lot of FJB flags fly all the time. People here somehow manage to all get along just fine, black, brown, and white... Must be an anomaly right? (Insert an eye roll emoji here...)
Sasha, you've got STONES! You are becoming an incredible writer (at least as I have just recently discovered you). You are logical, straight forward, and you reveal the hypocrisy of the left, the frustration of ordinary citizens, and shallowness of our media and elites. Which, surprise! is why Trump was elected. And our "betters" still cannot figure it out. You are one of the best on Substack. Thank you.
This is so well written. You know how sometimes you read or experience something that makes you feel like it helped you become a better version of yourself. Maybe it just reinforces your hope or sense of resolve. Maybe it’s simply, much needed validation of a truth you see but others have denied. Maybe it’s just articulated in a way that you couldn’t do yourself. This is that.
I’m feeling grateful for this work. As I sit here 5 miles off the coast of Sarasota, FL. waiting out hurricane Ian, in this present moment, this was a very welcome respite. Thank you.
Loved this. I admire you for being willing to consider a new direction. Even if I disagreed (I don’t), your honest and thoughtful delivery would go a long way toward deserving my respect. I sure miss the days of honest debate. So happy I found your Substack. Heard you on Glenn Beck.
Charges of racism convey power by forcing the accused to submit under pain of social ostracism. But this unspoken truth is known by almost all thinking members of society - it is only the challenge of who is to "bell the cat" by calling it out. This actually takes courage and integrity. (Thank you, Ms. Stone.)
Most "racism" as charged in the West is a mischaracterization of cultural friction. African immigrants seem to thrive in American society, but they do so by adapting to the dominant culture, not the cultural legacies of either Jim Crow or Black Power. What separates US urban minorities from the dominant culture of success has been documented extensively by social scientists and the explanations primarily reside in subcultural antipathy to the dominant culture of success that portrays that success in a democratic capitalist free society as "acting white." This is patently absurd, yet allows its proponents to gain relative power in our society by claiming to represent its "victims."
We see how obvious this fallacy is when East and South Asians - non-white minorities - eschew it to become the most successful ethnic and racial groups in American society. And Hispanics are starting to follow their lead away from this vicious narrative.
It’s true that most MAGA people are motivated by love of country, but I think the primary motivation is that we love our children. We want to leave our children with the proud legacy of American values. We know that if we fail, our children and grandchildren will pay the price.
Keep up the great work- I’m very glad I found your Substack. It gives me hope that people can change their minds.
Who is more the epitome of rage these days? Tucker Carlson or Keith Olbermann? Clay Travis or Cenk Uygur? Tomi Lahren or Joy Behar?
It is the left that is foaming at the mouth, not the right.
Reminds me of how the freedom convoy protest was characterized.
These accusations of racism serve two purposes:
1) To distract from the issues and divide people with confusion and anger
2) To send a loud-and-clear message to white people: your civic engagement is a hateful attack on your country, regardless of the cause.
Well done Sasha, as always.
I had read through a ton of your old blog posts, and I was entirely skeptical about these articles actually being genuine. A lot of people "switch sides" just to make a buck or buck a trend. Look at all the "former Republican" blue checkmark\MSNBC commenter types on Twitter etc. for examples of people going the other direction just for clout and money.
I don't think that is you. Not anymore. This piece proves you get it.
Welcome to Free America.
First Greenwald then Taibbi and now Ms Stone. I have faith in the media again.
The only "white rage" on today's scene is that in the increasingly white upper echelons of the Democratic Party and their allied structures in media and academia - the rage of impotently watching the ethnic minorities they claim to speak for abandoning them ...
Each update is more fascinating than the last. I'm so I happy I stumbled into Sasha on a Megyn Kelly podcast. She's brilliant.
For you younger folks who might not have been around, the white rage card is pretty old & dog-eared.
It was played following the 1994 mid-terms, when the Clintons were delivered a thumping rebuke by voters. Dems lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
It was chalked up to “white male rage” as a way of delegitimizing the result.
So it’s the same ol’ song, played with the volume cranked way up.
I was awaiting your next column, and I'm glad this arrived today. It did not disappoint! The only thing I'd like to say, if I understood you correctly, Obama you say, did not have any scandals. Au contraire, he had fast and furious, in which the guns he sold to Mexican cartels we're used to kill a border patrol agent, benghazi, which could have been more Hillary Clinton who did not secure that compound where our ambassador asked her 600 times and four people died including that ambassador, then you have the tea party scandal he would not approve the 503c applications and directed the IRS and lois learner specifically to slow walk them, hurting the movement, and finally he spied on the Trump campaign. It's just that the media didn't report any of it and they gave him 24/7 glowing reviews. The opposite would be Trump where they never gave him a chance and gave him 24/7 negative coverage.
That's my take on that. Thanks for all that you do!
Leftists/Dimocrats are STILL TODAY practitioners of enslavement & eugenics. Who suffered the most under Dimocrat policies? Whether it's coercive lockdowns, skyrocketing crime & inflation, failing public schools, an unsecured border allowing drug & human trafficking, allowing China & slave labor domination, etc., it's always poor, often minorities & vulnerable populations who suffer most. White Republicans are right to be enraged about that.
This is a great piece, thank you. I am not a big fan of Trump as a person (and sorry, I always was creeped out by Obama), but I am that most horrible of beings, a conservative, Christian, happily married for nearly 30 years, homeschooled and raised NORMAL kids, non-profit (not a lefty cause) founder.
When Obama was pushing Obamacare, a high school friend sent me a long rant on Facebook about how I was a RACIST RACIST RACIST because I didn't support it. (And btw every single thing I said would happen has happened, so there's that.) I sent her back a very measured reply that, since I had founded and run a nonprofit in UGANDA where I am in a very distinct minority (3% white "mzungus"), it was a pretty big stretch to decide I didn't like a crappy government program sure to cost me a crap-ton of money and make my own healthcare terrible because... checks notes... Obama is black. I told her I was giving her a day and making sure I knew she'd read it, then unfriending her - because who needs that crap??
I don't like crowds so don't go to rallies, and my social media is 100% apolitical. But I vote. And I raised kids who can think, see, and vote. I live in a very red county (78% in the last election) where a lot of FJB flags fly all the time. People here somehow manage to all get along just fine, black, brown, and white... Must be an anomaly right? (Insert an eye roll emoji here...)
Sasha, you've got STONES! You are becoming an incredible writer (at least as I have just recently discovered you). You are logical, straight forward, and you reveal the hypocrisy of the left, the frustration of ordinary citizens, and shallowness of our media and elites. Which, surprise! is why Trump was elected. And our "betters" still cannot figure it out. You are one of the best on Substack. Thank you.
This is so well written. You know how sometimes you read or experience something that makes you feel like it helped you become a better version of yourself. Maybe it just reinforces your hope or sense of resolve. Maybe it’s simply, much needed validation of a truth you see but others have denied. Maybe it’s just articulated in a way that you couldn’t do yourself. This is that.
I’m feeling grateful for this work. As I sit here 5 miles off the coast of Sarasota, FL. waiting out hurricane Ian, in this present moment, this was a very welcome respite. Thank you.
Beautifully written!
Loved this. I admire you for being willing to consider a new direction. Even if I disagreed (I don’t), your honest and thoughtful delivery would go a long way toward deserving my respect. I sure miss the days of honest debate. So happy I found your Substack. Heard you on Glenn Beck.
Charges of racism convey power by forcing the accused to submit under pain of social ostracism. But this unspoken truth is known by almost all thinking members of society - it is only the challenge of who is to "bell the cat" by calling it out. This actually takes courage and integrity. (Thank you, Ms. Stone.)
Most "racism" as charged in the West is a mischaracterization of cultural friction. African immigrants seem to thrive in American society, but they do so by adapting to the dominant culture, not the cultural legacies of either Jim Crow or Black Power. What separates US urban minorities from the dominant culture of success has been documented extensively by social scientists and the explanations primarily reside in subcultural antipathy to the dominant culture of success that portrays that success in a democratic capitalist free society as "acting white." This is patently absurd, yet allows its proponents to gain relative power in our society by claiming to represent its "victims."
We see how obvious this fallacy is when East and South Asians - non-white minorities - eschew it to become the most successful ethnic and racial groups in American society. And Hispanics are starting to follow their lead away from this vicious narrative.