Senator declares America a "white homeland" in shocking national conference speech

A sitting U.S. Senator has made one of the most explicitly white nationalist statements by an elected official since David Duke. He directly repudiated the foundational American principle that "all men are created equal."

At the National Conservatism Conference in Washington this week, Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt delivered a speech that rejected the idea that America is built on equality or accessible to people of all races and religions. Instead, he declared it a "fundamentally a white homeland" as reported by Joshua Shanes in Slate.

Lincoln who?

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address described America thus:

"conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Schmitt directly contradicted this." Instead, he argued that the white Europeans who settled America "believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants" and that "America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us."

The Senator was unambiguous about who "us" are in his vision. "If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all," Schmitt declared. "America is not a 'universal nation.'"

Of course this is all historical nonsense.

Ignoring America's diverse heritage

Schmitt's definition of "real Americans" excludes many who built the nation. He celebrates German settlers like his own ancestors, but excludes Black slaves who built much of the country. And let's not forget, who predate his ancesatoera here. And of the countless other ethnic groups who have helped build the nation? Silence.

The speech portrayed Americans as "sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe's shores." Then his mask just falls. He celebrating the Native American genocide as proof of white superiority. Schmitt claimed whites destroyed Native Americans "because they were superior in strength and perseverance," which Shanes characterizes as "a fascist vision of natural selection favoring the group with racial and cultural superiority."

Yes, he really used that word positively. Not long ago, that would have ended his career

Targeting the opposition

The Senator's painted non-white Americans and their allies as existential threats. He referenced Barack Obama and his supporters who "scorned the white patriots," people removing Confederate monuments who turn "yesterday's heroes into today's villains," and "anarchists" behind the "George Floyd riots."

"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," Schmitt declared. "But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us."

He's calling for a return to the confederacy's treason and lost cause mythology.

Racism ascendant everywhere

This speech represents an escalation within the National Conservatism Conference's increasingly radical rhetoric. The conference "has been promoting blood-and-soil nationalism since its first iteration in 2019," when University of Pennsylvania Law professor Amy Wax argued the country "would be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites." Blood and soil should ring some bells for you. Schmitt is German after all and his heart is in the 1930s.

In 2024, Missouri's senior senator Josh Hawley gave the keynote, celebrating Christian nationalism and warning against "cosmopolitans" and "globalists"—all terms with antisemitic history. Schmitt opened his own speech with similar language, condemning "elites" who "rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere"—what Shanes calls "the 'rootless cosmopolitan' trope at the heart of modern antisemitism."

This isn't just Klan shit. It's the full on Nazi experience.

The danger at our door

We must have clear eyes about this and what they mean. As Shanes notes, this represents "a repudiation of our Constitution and the core of a national identity that includes all its citizens" and demonstrates that "the MAGA coalition's endgame" extends beyond opposing illegal immigration to advocating "a white (Christian) nationalist vision of America that claims ownership of power and resources for white (Christian) Americans alone."

The fact that a sitting senator could deliver such remarks "without shame or pushback by his party highlights the extent to which it represents where that party now stands," according to the analysis.

Didn't I say I hate Missouri Nazis? Fuck these guys. A Nazi, any Nazi, must be met with all the force at your disposal.

Non in Cautus Futuri.