As I’ve previously written, Groyperization on everything but the Jews has already occurred on the right. That leads to the question of what we do from here. We basically have a mainstream conservative movement that is motivated by implicit white nationalism, being challenged by an insurgency that is explicitly white nationalist. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that people who stress identitarian concerns will often be very flexible with economic arguments. Often, they end up agreeing with the left on economic issues, because that is the easiest way to make nativist arguments in a relatively non-offensive way.
One of the main things that differentiates pro-market and anti-market thinkers is the degree to which each side believes that market processes are zero-sum. Socialists tend to assume that there are fixed amounts of jobs and resources, and politics revolves around fighting over who gets what. Capitalism rests on the idea that trade generally makes both parties better off, and we can set things up so that everyone gets wealthier in the long run. The entire history of the progress of our species is one long advertisement for how the capitalists are right and the socialists are wrong.
People always feel the need to argue that their preferred policies will make others in society better off in tangible ways. Even postliberals who stress that things other than GDP matter will when they can argue that their preferred policies improve living standards. They get to have it both ways, making economic arguments when convenient and retreating to “we’re a nation, not an economy” when things go wrong.
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The main reason I like RH's writing is that he kind of blurts things out that other people, both left and right, will just dance around without mentioning.
I agree that most Republicans should just admit that they don't like minorities (except for the ones they do like) and think whites are better. No need to bend yourself in pretzels like JD Vance. Just come out and say it: I want a white country. Only liberals and people who work in liberal spaces get cancelled. You'll probably be okay. And you'll be more true to yourself and what you really believe.
And I think in the longer run being more honest with yourself might cause you to come to the same or similar conclusion that I did: that white people really aren't all that great. Yes, people who were white invented the airplane and the light bulb and democracy and the computer and whatever - wonderful!
But think about this: white "people" did not invent these things, individuals who happened to be white did. You as a white person do not own the patent on airplanes or computers. I as a white person have no claim on automobiles or whatnot. I didn't invent them, someone else did. And their skin color did not make them better at inventing things - being born in a rich high tech country with education and privilege did.
The truth is that white people actually kind of suck - because white people are people, and as a general rule: people suck. Yes, some white people have done amazing things. But so have asians, latinos, indians, and even blacks. But most regular people of all stripes just kind of suck. They are just mediocre humdrum nothings - including white people.
And that is the thing I've found about the whites who are obsessed with how great whites are. They are just kind of humdrum mediocre nobodies. They desperately believe that their whiteness means something probably because they themselves are not really all that remarkable. And the whites that are remarkable - are usually liberals or centrist conservatives.
For me personally, though I was raised to be another working class white loser. I decided that I didn't want to be that guy. I wanted to be better and more successful. So I left the white grievance politics behind - and damn, within a few years my life got better. Not that becoming say a liberal automatically makes you richer or something - it just forces you to look inward when asking "why is my life not where I want it to be?" Instead of blaming immigrants or jews, I learned to point the finger at myself.
And of course you have to be careful not to get caught up in wokeness either - which is the left's answer to "how can I embrace an ideology that is self defeating?"
Being racist and white nationalist is the road to loserdom (unless you are a media grifter - then it is probably your golden goose - but we all can't do it). Being real about your motivations will help you actualize this faster.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that right-wing opposition to Gulf state-style guest worker immigration would be far lower than right-wing opposition to the status quo. Your "pitch" might actually work reasonably well as a defence of the former.