First, George Kennan (yeah, that guy) was one of the early Replacement theorists, writing about the Balkans that its architectural beauty had largely been stolen by waves of invaders living in what they had not built. Long before Renaud Camus, Kennan said: "I believe that the healthy national society would rigidly eschew the importation of foreign labor . . . I consider that it should restrict to a minimum its economic and financial involvements with other peoples.”
Second, it’s literally essential to understand what Kennan got wrong, because the Left continues to make the same mistake – American immigrants aren’t “foreign labor”.
In this country, immigration isn’t about economics. It’s civics.
Legal immigrants are people we want; that’s why they are legal. Illegal immigration is something we don’t want – that’s why it’s against the law.
Bought and paid for by cheap labor lobbies (letterheads with foundation grants), the Left insists there is no difference between legal and illegal, permanent and temporary; between those we have invited (legal immigrants) and those we will not turn away (refugees* and asylees). The obvious, inevitable result is more people, with fewer rights.
Who really do replace Americans, since a citizen cannot compete economically with people who have fewer rights.
That prompts alienation, making the whole Left shtick about immigration prompting white supremacist reaction downright iatrogenic.
What’s the essence of American immigration? Citizenship.
Which depends on the rule of law.
*Strictly speaking, refugees are an expression of foreign policy, not immigration as such.
