So when "Erich Schmitt" - and he insists on the German spelling of his name - the senator from the backward slavery state of Missouri reflects on America, he doesn't go very far from the christian white supremacist ideology of his native Germany or of his adopted country of America.
Still, this idiot does not comment on the fact that the English stock crooked colonial settlers of America did not mind the illegal migration of millions of backward illiterate peasants from Germany because they needed them as cheap labor. But no sooner had these German migrant peasants arrived that the English settlers treated them like scum for one or two generations until they "assimilated". Both being racists and christian supremacists, assimilation was an easy process. Before the Germans and the Scandinavian illegal migrants, there was a wave of Irish illiterate ignorant drunkards who migrated and were tolerated because they spoke English, but because they were Catholics they were treated like scum too. Public spaces proudly posted signs: "No dogs, no Irish, no colored".
For now, Erich Schmitt, whose grandparents arrived from Germany, claims America belongs exclusively to him (i.e. white anglo-saxon protestant). Beyond the English, German, Irish and other "acceptable" white immigrants, later immigrants were brought in for their cheap labor but would not be acceptable as "true Americans". All those Chinese, Italians, Lebanese, Russians, Greeks and other immigrants could not claim the proud heritage of African slavery and native-American genocide of the white northern European Protestant bastards.
The white racists of the United States are trying to buck the natural course of events. There is no longer any immigration from Europe. Hence, with the need for labor, the white racists reluctantly allow "culturally unacceptable" immigrants, and when the need is satisfied, they decide to deport them or deny them further immigration. It's a very Christian thing, albeit racist and hateful, to do. Trump's anti-immigration campaign is exactly that: Dry up the flow of immigrants, expel as many as possible under a variety of false pretexts (rapists, criminals, drug dealers....) before the white Christian majority dwindles down to one of many minorities by some time during this century.
An aside: Trump and his MAGA racists always blame the flow of drugs into the US as a major problem. They also believe in free markets: Supply and demand. They supposedly fight the supply side. But no one ever questions the demand by white Christian Americans for drugs. It is they who use the drugs - from the beaches of California, to the boonies of Iowa and the skyscrapppers of Wall Street. Why doesn't Trump fight the demand for drugs by his racist white christian followers? Don't they have any responsibility? If the white Christian racists stopped using drugs, the flow of drugs will stop, and the drug smuggling (in exchange for NRA- and gun-manufacturer outward smuggling of weapons to the drug cartels) will stop.
WHITE AMERICANS: STOP USING DRUGS, KILL THE CARTELS.
The problem for white christian Americans is truly existential, but there is very little they can do about it. The only partially English-speaking United States has acquired about 50% of its territory from Spanish-speaking Spain and Mexico, some 15% from Russia, and another 15% from France. The latter two no longer pose a threat to the English stock Anglo-saxon Americans. More problematic is the fact that this island of English speakers is surrounded by a vast reservoir of Spanish speakers from Central and South America. The physical contiguity of this reservoir to the US will forever challenge the English-speaking White Protestants. You can stop the flow of Chinese immigrants. You can stop the flow of Indian immigrants. You can stop all immigration, EXCEPT that from Central and South America because of that contiguity and because a good third of Americans are of Spanish-speaking stock. Immigrants and migrants from all over the world will assimilate once their immigration is stopped, except those from Latin America because there already is an extant and huge community of Spanih speakers where immigrants can live without integrating into the broader United States. Sort of like a huge Spanish-speaking "China town" across the southern third of the United States.
That is also the problem with former colonial empires. The Europeans are now raising hell about their own immigrants from Asia and Africa. But these immigrants were once British, French, Spanish, Dutch citizens because their lands were colonized by the British, French, Spanish and Dutch empires. The immigration problems facing Europe are all of their own making. They lied to the colonized people in order to steal their resources, and now that colonialism is over and the resources depleted, they want to kick their own "citizens" out. Having enriched itself for centuries on the backs of their colonies, Europeans today are watching their wealth be reduced to nil because they can no longer steal and whatever they have stolen since the 1500s has been depleted.
It's reckoning time. Decolonization is not over yet.
Opinion
GOP Senator Draws Outrage After Speech on Who America “Belongs To”
Robert McCoy
Wed, September 3, 2025
At the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri proposed a new direction for his party—essentially arguing for the self-styled “party of Lincoln” to abandon Lincoln for white nationalism.
Schmitt’s speech took issue with the “old conservative establishment” for embracing legal immigration, instead positing that there are select true Americans to whom the country belongs.
“That’s what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract ‘proposition,’ but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests,” Schmitt said. The Continental Army soldiers at Valley Forge, Pilgrims at Plymouth, pioneers in Missouri, and “Kentucky settlers repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks,” Schmitt said, “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants.”
“America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny,” the senator continued. “If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true.”
He went on: “When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our history, and insult our traditions, they’re attacking our future as well as our past. By changing the stories we tell about ourselves, they believe they can build a new America—with the new myths of a new people. But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.”
Schmitt failed to include any nonwhite people in the true-American pile. He did, however, include his German ancestors, who came to America in the 1840s: a time when, he omitted to mention, arriving European immigrants were met with no shortage of nativist challenges to their American-ness.
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln—during his Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas—observed that much of the U.S. population could not trace their lineage to the Revolutionary era and Founding Fathers. These “men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here,” he said, had no “connection with those days by blood.”
But he affirmed their claim on America nonetheless: The Declaration of Independence’s assertion that “all men are created equal,” he said, makes them as much American “as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are.”
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