Race nostalgia has infected nearly every political argument made today. A look at what it is and how to stop it.

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This week, Andrea Pitzer considers the prioritization of white South Africans in US refugee policy, noting that they make up literally the only refugees currently being admitted to the United States. She explores how that policy is part of a larger map of racial grievance that has already led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people of color around the globe--a choice enthusiastically embraced by the current administration. Laying out a theory of the angry daddy as the model deliberately adopted by Trump and his fellow travelers, Andrea explores how it gets injected into politics as a promise to not only provide for the chosen followers of the leader, but also to punish those deemed less worthy.

Walking listeners through the ways that solidarity with racially aggrieved white communities frames the entire political enterprise running the government today, Andrea then turns to the ways the same concept likewise animates the strategies adopted by those who see themselves as opposing Trump. She questions the tendency to seek macho white male candidates, as if these are the only politicians capable of securing democracy. Looking at the recent expanded damage to the Voting Rights Act inflicted by the Supreme Court and the frenzy of gerrymandering it has unleashed, Andrea explains how the tendency to raise up white men as savior candidates on the left will only speed and amplify the disappearance of candidates of color from office nationwide. The episode closes with some way to think about taking action to address the corruption and crony networks that make this kind of resegregation possible.

0:00 White South African Refugees and Trump's Race-Based Immigration Policy

1:16 The $100 Million Taxpayer Cost of Afrikaner Refugee Policy

3:27 White Solidarity and the Roots of MAGA Race Nostalgia

7:22 Strict Father Politics: How Authoritarian Psychology Drives Voter Behavior

12:25 Strategic Racism: How Politicians Use Dog Whistles to Divide America

17:26 USAID Cuts and the Hidden Cost of White Refugee Policy

20:42 Andrew Sullivan, Demographic Change, and the Eugenics Trap

23:41 Democrats Adopting White Solidarity Tactics to Win Back Voters

28:18 How to Fight Corruption and White Supremacy at the Local Level