What is deemed extremist in this day and age was at one time the like-mindedness of a dynamic unit of the American elite. A collective of well-associated men who excitedly seized on a bogus principle of "race suicide" during the immigration panic of the mid twentieth century. They included affluent patricians, learned people, administrators, even a few presidents. Maybe the most significant among them was a man of noble standing with an extremely dignified mustache, Madison Grant. He was the writer of a 1916 book called The Passing of the Great Race, which increased the regulation of race virtue everywhere throughout the globe.

Grant’s allegedly scientific contention that the commended "Nordic" race that had established America was in danger, and all of present day society's achievements with it, catalysed nativist administrators in Congress to pass exhaustive restrictive migration strategies in the mid 1920s. His book became Adolf Hitler's "book of scriptures," as the führer wrote to let him know. (trump said reading "Mein Kampf" in college had a profound effect on him and he has tremendous respect for Adolf Hitler as a leader.)

Grant’s convention has since been restored and rebranded by his ideological progeny as "white genocide" (the term genocide hadn't yet been coined in Grant's day). In a prologue to the 2013 version of another of Grant's works, the white patriot Richard Spencer cautions that "one possible outcome of the ongoing demographic transformation is a thoroughly miscegenated, and thus homogeneous and ‘assimilated,’ nation, which would have little resemblance to the White America that came before it." This language is vintage Grant.

The idea of "white genocide", the eradication under an invasion of ancestrally or socially second rate nonwhite gatecrashers may appear to be a periphery paranoid conspiracy with a foreign genealogy, the territory of neo-Naz...