The Case Against The Town Fool

August 4, 2026 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, MAGA, Politics, Populists, White Advocacy, White Nationalism 1

I still haven’t bothered to read Scott Greer’s new book Whitepill.

The book was finally released in late July while I was traveling with my family. I didn’t have an advance copy. I made a similar case on this website for five years. More than anything else, it seems pointless to even buy the book given our trajectory. Donald Trump is a historically unpopular term limited president who is hovering around 33% in national polls. We’re less than a 100 days out from the 2026 midterms. The Republican Congress will barely work a week before the midterms. Trump is poised to become a lame duck president besieged by a hostile Democratic Congress in his last two years of office.

What is the Whitepill?

The Trump era began in 2015 and will end in 2028. 85% of Donald Trump’s reign in American national politics is now in the history books. There is no reason whatsoever to believe Trump’s last two years in office will be more productive than the previous six years. The non-Hispanic White share of the American population has declined from around 62% in June 2015 to 57% in August 2026. The dollar has lost 30% of its value since 2020. The national debt which was $18.2 trillion in June 2015 has ballooned to $39.8 trillion in August 2026. There are tens of millions of more legal immigrants and illegal aliens in the United States in August 2026 than was the case in June 2015. Everything from groceries to fast food to health insurance to home ownership to a new car to gasoline ($2.89 a gallon) to electricity now costs more in August 2026 than it did when Trump was given the chance to “Make America Great Again” in June 2015.

In July 2015, which was roughly a month after Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower, the United States and Iran agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) aka the Iran Deal which limited Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration negotiated a peace deal with Iran which incensed Trump, AIPAC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, Bibi Netanyahu and Israel. The rest is history. President Trump tore up the JCPOA and set us on our present course to a war with Iran for Israel. The candidate who “moved the Overton Window” by repeatedly styling himself as the “Peace President” and who promised “no new wars” launched America’s dumbest and most unpopular war yet in the Middle East. The war in Ukraine which Trump vowed to end on “Day One” of his second term continues to this day. America’s alliances were stronger when Obama was president. America was stronger viz its adversaries like China, Iran and Russia when Obama was president. The “America First” president put his pro-Israel donors first when he embarked on a war of choice that put the interests of working Americans last. No previous American president including George W. Bush was dumb enough to go to war with Iran.

Donald Trump came to power in 2016 by promising to ignite a renaissance of American manufacturing in the Rust Belt. I attended his Inaugural Address in January 2017 when he vowed that “this American carnage stops right here and right now.” Nearly a decade later, around 12.5 million Americans are employed in the manufacturing sector, which is roughly what it was on that cold January morning. Manufacturing employment has contracted in Trump’s second term since hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration. Trump’s erratic and arbitrary use of tariffs like his recent announcement of a 50% tariff on Canadian imports has driven up prices, made tariffs unpopular and produced a Supreme Court decision which has limited presidential power to impose tariffs. Trump’s policies have made the case that Democrats are better at economic nationalism.

Trump hasn’t fared much better on immigration than he has on tariffs. The Supreme Court recently issued a landmark decision that upheld birthright citizenship. The “mass deportations” which we were promised and which were funded by the Big Beautiful Bill haven’t materialized. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin recently celebrated the fact that there have been 900,000 naturalizations over the past year which is roughly 3x as many people as DHS says it has deported in FY 2026. “Net negative migration” isn’t happening. DHS has even resorted to copying the Obama administration by counting returns at the border as deportations in order to juice the numbers up. Meanwhile, the GOP Congress is considering no less than four amnesties in the current Congress – the Rep. Maria Salazar’s Dignity Act which is comprehensive immigration reform under a new name, Sen. Susan Murkowski’s 2025 DREAM Act, Sen. John Curtis’s state migrant program and the farmworker amnesty introduced by Rep. Glenn Thompson who is the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Republicans in Congress have never stopped pushing for amnesty in the Trump era including many of the same ones from the Bush era.

It was only a few years ago that our friend Rep. Steve King was hounded out of Congress for saying that White people should have more babies. He was joined by Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Mo Brooks here in Alabama who were tougher than anyone on immigration in Congress. They have since been joined by Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who were ousted for “antisemitism” for criticizing Trump’s handling of the Epstein files and his war with Iran for Israel. Greene was the first member of Congress to raise anti-White discrimination and the Great Replacement as important issues. Sen. Lindsey Graham who passed away after living to see Trump accomplish his life’s work of starting a war with Iran for Israel died a MAGA hero. Graham who supported every destructive war and every push for amnesty of the last 25 years in Congress was mourned by Trump. Far from remaking the Republican Party in the image of any nationalist ideology, Trump has cultivated a cult of personality instead. The only litmus test he has imposed is absolute loyalty to Israel. Over a quarter of House Republicans continue to support amnesties of one stripe or another and virtually all of them have fallen in line to support the Iran War.

After Charlottesville, it is true that the “Overton Window” shifted. It is true that there were many “metapolitical victories” like the popularization of the term anti-White and the Great Replacement. It is also true that Donald Trump had nothing to do with any of this. He didn’t mention White people even once in his first term in office. The demographic decline of White America is less important to Trump than the White House Ballroom or the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Instead, it was Tucker Carlson who raised all of these issues on his show on FOX News. This was before Tucker was fired and replaced by Jesse Watters who does the “culture war” slop without saying anything remotely interesting. It was Tucker who pushed the envelope in all these directions. This was deeply resented by Con Inc. which eventually reacted against what it calls the “Woke Reich.” For six months after the death of Charlie Kirk, Con Inc. hysterically denounced Tucker as an antisemite and called for him to be purged from MAGA and conservatism, which evidently is synonymous with the interests of the Israeli government. Trump himself eventually sided with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and purged Tucker, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly and other influencers with huge audiences from MAGA and the conservative movement. This was by far the biggest purge in conservatism since the 1990s when William F. Buckley denounced Pat Buchanan as an antisemite in National Review. It underscores how little conservatism has changed over the past 34 years.

It is true that mainstream conservatism has adopted Alt-Right rhetoric and ideas which resonate with younger conservatives and Independents who otherwise don’t watch FOX News or listen to talk radio. The Trump administration has endorsed concepts like “no new wars” and “remigration.” Initially, it was exciting to see illegal aliens being loaded up on planes in chains in photo ops and deported to Guantanamo Bay or “Alligator Alcatraz” before those sites were closed. This was done to create the impression that “remigration” was happening. Trump condemned White Genocide in front of South Africa’s president. He also gave a speech in Saudi Arabia less than a month before Operation Midnight Hammer in which he looked into the camera and condemned decades of military interventions in the Middle East. He said in his Second Inaugural Address that he was going to stop wars. This type of rhetoric was used to dampen criticism and boost turnout from low propensity voters and never really meant anything. The Alt-Right rhetoric and ideas were gutted and transformed into conventional GOP dog whistles.

The Republican Party has always tried to harness populist energy and mine cultural grievances in order to advance its traditional policy agenda. It has always excelled in race baiting about black crime. It has always engaged in culture war performance theater. Bill O’Reilly performed this act for over 20 years on FOX News. Matt Walsh throws out the red meat on race and transgenderism for Daily Wire’s dwindling audience. We were promised “mass deportations” and “remigration” and received two corporate tax cuts via budget reconciliation. We received AI deregulation. We received a war with Iran for pro-Israel donors. We cut Medicaid to pay for a $1.5 trillion dollar military budget. We got the First Step Act. We got clowns like Dan Bongino and Spider Ka$h running the FBI to protect Trump’s friends at Mar-a-Lago. We got pardons sold to black rappers, Jewish scam artists and millionaires convicted of fraud.

There are plenty of well meaning people who have “infiltrated” the Republican Party. There are millions of well meaning people who vote Republican. We need to stop gaslighting ourselves into believing their opinions matter because it is only a handful of people at the very top who are making the big decisions. It is probably true that Vice President JD Vance opposed the Iran War, but even he felt powerless to stop it and sat in his cuck chair while Trump destroyed his own coalition and political future. Tucker Carlson was the most influential commentator in American conservatism. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a member of Congress who knew Trump personally. Greg Bovino was in charge of the mass deportations effort before he was relieved of duty. They have been on the inside and have seen it is hopeless. You can choose to work as a shill and apologist for Con. Inc. like Scott has done, but this only makes you a delusional employee. You are literally the help. You are as marginalized as anyone on the outside.

The Republican Party has been given three trifectas over the past 25 years. It has squandered all of them. Trump alone squandered two trifectas. It has started a war in the Middle East three times, neglected the economy, broken its coalition, alienated Independents and handed power back over to Democrats. Over the last 15 years, rightwing populist movements like the Tea Party and MAGA rose, each yelling against the establishment in tricorn and red hats while changing nothing. Ted Cruz admits today that he ran for office to be Israel’s strongest soldier, not because of any of the Tea Party causes he pretended to care about. None of this reality television noise will amount to anything from the vantagepoint of 2030. You would have been better off tuning out and focusing your attention on almost anything else.

If I was making a steel man case for Trump changing the Republican Party, I would point to how he has closed the border or how the refugee resettlement program takes in South African refugees. Jared Taylor has already responded to Scott Greer though. Trump’s immigration policies from his first term were dismantled in Joe Biden’s first week in office. Trump’s deportations in his first term were dwarfed by Joe Biden’s open border. The refugee resettlement program will snap back when the next Democrat president takes over. South African refugees cynically used as pawns will be sent home. The “Gulf of America” will become the Gulf of Mexico again. All of these things will go the way of the Keystone Pipeline. Republicans have only created a partisan incentive structure to keep a captive audience peddling on their hamster wheel, voting in election after election while ultimately traveling nowhere they want to go.

Conservatism failed to “Make America Great Again.” America is worse off today than it was when Obama was president by every metric. Although we hit Dow 50,000, it has failed to do anything meaningful about immigration or anti-White discrimination. By absorbing these issues into Trumpism, it has only succeeded in making them intensely polarizing. Instead of Obama era optimism about a postracial society, we ended up with Wokeism and explicit anti-White discrimination. Instead of a steady bipartisan flow of legal immigrants and illegal aliens, we have shifted to pauses and torrential floods. We also haven’t seen the backlash to Trump’s second term. Overall, American society became more anti-White and immigration and demographic change accelerated between 2015 and 2030, which is all that matters.

You’re a dope if you think 20 years of The O’Reilly Factor on FOX News amounted to anything. In style and substance, the Trump era has been the same type of bullshitter and blowhard sitting in the Oval Office. It is fitting that it is ending like George W. Bush’s discredited presidency, trapped in another quagmire that donors wanted in the Middle East, crumbling as voters rebel over mismanagement of the economy with Trump daydreaming on Truth Social about merging America with Venezuela. He will return the Republican Party to the ruins in which he found it because these people learned absolutely nothing.

Note: This was America when Obama was in office.

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