After years of denying it in the hopes of building a bigger coalition, the realist Right may have discovered that nationalism is the science of building nations around one ethnic group only, and through that, the idea that our “ethnostate” in America would be a WASP colony.

History tells us that America was founded by a group of English people with aid from some similarly-minded Scots, Dutch, German, and northern French individuals. When I last visited New England, those were the types of names on the oldest tombstones and on the oldest documents.

These people came over the sea as pioneers, arriving in an uncertain land where death lurked around every corner, that is if they did not die on the way over. They had to make or make do without any of the luxuries or infrastructure of Europe, fighting Indians and wild animals and new diseases.

As soon as they got things established, however, a flood of people began coming from Europe to take advantage of what others have made. This is how humans destroy everything: once the good people make it, the rest smother it.

Early America worked because the people were so similar; ethnic Western Europeans are genetically and culturally similar enough that they cluster as a single ethnic group. This allowed America to borrow a culture without even knowing that it was doing this.

Once the newcomers arrived, things got worse. In cities like Chicago and New York, political “machines” sprang up around the idea of buying votes with benefits, targeting new groups like the Irish and later, Italians, Jews, Slavs, and assorted Southern Europeans and South Americans.

These eventually conspired against the ethnic Western Europeans — called White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) to recognize their shared English cultural root in America — and by having large enough numbers to sway the vote, overthrew the WASP power structure in the 1960s.