Notice_the_nose’s Reviews > Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream > Status Update

Willis Carto was a merchant, in the business of selling white supremacy and anti-Semitism his own concerns always focused on the next sale rather than the next generation. Nevertheless, his accomplishments have continued standing after he walked off the main stage of action He had turned the defeat of Hitler and Hitlerism into a phony revisionist history, in which Nazi gassing were a myth and the Holocaust was a hoax

A rumor that Jews had been warned in advance that the trade center would be destroyed and consequently stayed home from work on the fated day was repeated as truth at both ends of the political spectrum. Fully one out of five ”blame[s] America’s support for Israel for the attacks.

The ferocity of the continuing violence belied the fact that the political space inside white nationalism for organized mayhem and murder had shrunk considerably since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Further complicating the situation, the white nationalist movement as a whole had grown stronger. It seemed like a paradox. But it was not the vanguardists that were growing.

Nevertheless, nonviolent extraparliamentary activity had its own frustrations. Sure, you could march by the thousands to keep the Confederate battle flag flying. You could eat, greet, and meet with fellow revisionists and scientific racists until your white skin sagged off your face. But that wasn’t going to topple the New World Order establishment or end “race mixing.”

While violence and mayhem abounded, the electioneering side of the movement grew also. This time it ensconced itself in the Buchananite wing of the Republican Party and developed an increased vibrancy represented best by the rebirth of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

At the Saturday night banquet address he was formally introduced as the “leading distributor of revisionist” materials. The staff added an unusual disclaimer: the IHR’s goals were “fundamentally different” from Zundels, an apparent reference to his open advocacy of national socialism. Nevertheless, he was described to great applause as the “ring master" who had tamed the “huge media circus" attendant at his two trial

The United States is peopled by two nations, they argued, not one: “American nationals ’ (or organic sovereigns) versus “U.S. citizens.” The latter, they said, were unfortunate denizens of a corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C.

By contrast, following the Weaver case, government agents, rather than Aryan bandits, were regarded as heartless killers. 11 A renewed drive for mainstream acceptance was paralleled by a rise in mass gun-toting militia militancy. A sector of Christian nationalists began intersecting with white nationalists. A new cohort of militants again robbed banks and killed for their cause.

Metzger proposed a sanguinary conclusion to the whole phenomenon: "When abortion is declared to be murder they [Jewish doctors and lesbian nurses should] be hung by piano wires for the holocaust of twenty million white babies. ”

Much like Pat Buchanan’s adopting the rhetoric of David Duke and Willis Carto’s Spotlight , a number of activists and organizations associated with Christian conservative causes adopted a more militant opposition to the status quo. A new Christian nationalism emerged, distinct yet entwined with the post-Cold War white nationalism. And a mixture of guns with religion burst like the muzzle flash of a .38 revolver.