The American Experiment Has Failed

Adapted from remarks given at the American Renaissance conference, Nov. 15, 2025.

I hate it when people talk about the “American Experiment.” Experiments can fail, and I don’t like the idea of living in a test tube. No one ever talks about the Chinese experiment, or the French experiment, although the French have actually done a lot of experimenting. During the time we have been a republic, France worked its way through two empires, three monarchies, and five republics. So — I don’t know — maybe there’s something to the idea of trying new things every so often.

I hate even more all the jabber about “American exceptionalism.” It’s this puffed-up idea that somehow we have suspended the laws of human nature, and got things right that no other country in history ever got right. Rubbish.

And the current American experiment — the one that turned a promising white country into this multi-culti mush — I hereby declare that experiment a miserable failure. And a colossally, cynically, hypocritical failure.

Our rulers, who profess to believe nonsense about equality and diversity, clearly don’t believe it for themselves. Having black and brown neighbors is, of course, marvelous. Just not for them. Sending your children to schools where they are the only ones who speak English is vibrant, enriching. But our rulers nobly forego these wonderful experiences so that middle-class and blue-collar people can benefit from them instead.

As the great Joe Sobran used to say, “In their mating and migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the Ku Klux Klan.” He also used to say: “The purpose of a college education is to give you the right attitudes towards minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”

American is a swamp of hypocrisy, deliberate blindness, and preposterous egalitarian nonsense.

And so, today, I would like to ask, what is the most that real Americans — white people — can ever expect from this experiment? I’ll start with what has happened after November 5, 2024, when Donald Trump won the election. What I say now will make me sound like a fawning Trump fanboy — which I am most certainly not — but you have to give credit where it is due.

I don’t think Donald Trump thinks coherently in terms of race, but at least on the domestic front, he has done just about everything a racially conscious President would do.

Donald Trump closed the Southern border. In the most recent month, 6,072 people were caught trying to break in. Not one was released into the country.

Under Sleepy Joe, in just the month of December 2023, 300,000 illegals — 50 times as many — just sashayed in. And almost all were turned loose into the country.

Under Trump, the foreign-born population has actually dropped. Except for a slight dip during Covid in 2020, the number of foreigners had been growing — tremendously — ever since 1970. Trump has turned around a more than 50-years-long trend of relentless great replacement. In his first seven months, 2.2 million foreigners left the country. And 1.6 million of them were illegals.

Trump is finally trying to get rid of the absurd rule that any pregnant low-IQ Third-Worlder who staggers across the border and finds a hospital has just produced a US citizen with all the rights and privileges of any of us in this room.

Trump slashed the refugee program from an annual 125,000 under Biden to zero. He then let in 138 South Africans, all of them white, and says he will set a new quota of 7,500, with a priority on white people fleeing South Africa, and Europeans escaping countries that won’t let them criticize mass immigration. And the reason for letting in whites is that we want people who will assimilate, because “diversity” can be overdone. What happened to diversity is our strength?

The FBI has cut all ties with the ADL and the SPLC — after working with them for decades. The ADL used to teach a course called “Law Enforcement & Society” that was required for all new FBI agents. They studied the Holocaust, the role of police under the Nazis, and the implications for law enforcement today. The ADL helped write the FBI’s “Hate Crimes Training Manual.” All that is finished.

The SPLC taught the FBI about domestic extremism, and the bureau regularly used the SPLC “hate map” on which many of us are prominently located. That’s finished, too.

Letitia James has been indicted. Antifa has been designated a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Trump has exterminated DEI and race preferences in the federal government, and hammers away at it in the private sector. No more MLK Day celebrations in the federal government. No more high, holy homo days.

There’s something called the federal Office of Contract Compliance. It made sure every government contractor pushed DEI everywhere, always. Trump couldn’t eliminate it because it is set up by law, but he pruned that office back to, basically, the director and a janitor.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has $170 billion for ICE and border control. We’d like to see a lot more people checking in to Alligator Alcatraz, but we have been treated to lovely videos of men in combat outfits rounding up brown-skinned people. And so far, Kristi Noem has brushed off all the screaming about Gestapo tactics.

Under Trump, ICE and border patrol have been swamped with job applications.

On his first visit to Europe as vice president, JD Vance told the Europeans that their worst enemy is inside the gates — that they have to stop censoring people who criticize mass immigration and stop trying to freeze out parties that want to control immigration.

And that’s just the race stuff.

In May, the DoD reported that as of December last year, there were about 4,200 people in the military who thought they were the wrong sex. Mostly, men who thought they were women. We’re supposed to beat the Chinese with an army of men who think they can get pregnant.

Now, the Department of War says all trannies have to go. A thousand have already left, and the rest are on their way out.

Trump fired just about everyone who works for USAID, and junked thousands of useless “aid” programs.

Just recently, the word went out to the State Department to deny immigrant visas to people who are fat, or who have other medical conditions. Fat people and diabetics are going to rack up medical expenses, and we ain’t paying for it, José.

All this is unreservedly wonderful. If you had told me before the election, that all this would happen in a just one year, I would told have you, “keep dreaming.” I didn’t think Trump would win, and I was afraid that if he did win, he would piddle away this term the way he did his first.

But is any of this permanent? Aside from the massive increase in the budget for border control and ICE, everything Donald Trump has done for us he did by Executive Order. A Democrat president, on his, her, or its first day in office, could wipe it all out.

How likely is a Democrat president in 2028? Please recall that a 2 percent shift in the vote in the battleground states would have meant we would have gotten the half-Hindu. By the time of the next election, the white percentage of voters is projected to drop from 71 percent, to 69 percent. Two percent fewer white votes means two percent more non-white votes, which means a shift of 4 percent the wrong way. Harris or a Harris clone could very well win.

What would happen? Trump’s second term has terrified the Left, and you can count on it using every means — fair, foul, crooked, illegal — to crush what they call “fascism.” All orthodoxies lash out as they crumble, and Left orthodoxy is utterly bankrupt — morally and intellectually — so it will lash out viciously. Letitia James, as head of the Department of Justice, will hire a thousand anti-white zealot lawyers. There will be vicious deplatforming, debanking, doxing. Reinvigorated crazies will push more gruesome anti-white nastiness into every corner of our lives. ICE will be cut way back, and today’s ICE agents will be charged with civil rights violations for what they did under Trump.

The old message will go out: America is up for grabs; it belongs to whoever gets in. And they will start pouring across the border. Police forces will be gutted. Crime will soar. Harriet Tubman and MLK will boot dead white males off of the currency.

A Democrat president will launch a blitzkrieg against the idea of white people organizing as whites in their own interests.

When that day comes — and it will come — in retrospect, the current era will seem like a golden age.

But is this, by any stretch of the imagination, a golden age? Is this anything like America as it should be? Absolutely not. There are a thousand things wrong with this country that Trump can’t fix.

Imagine you could wave a magic wand and all of a sudden we have an ethnostate. Think of all the things we would have to change just to raise birth rates. That would require a radical restoration of sex roles, and a fundamental reorientation of individual responsibilities to the group. Think of the measures we would have to take to improve our own people, even if we didn’t have to worry about anyone else. All that would be a joyful but gigantic task.

Last year, I surprised some of you by saying that the United States — this political entity — can never again be a home for white people. My opinion hasn’t changed, even if we imagine two back-to-back miracles. Let’s imagine JD Vance gets himself elected for two terms. He will not — he cannot — make the United States a home for white people.

What is the most he could add to what Trump has done?

He could commission a high-profile study on race differences in IQ and their implications for America. The country might grudgingly begin to accept its findings. That would mean that the worst forms of Negro-worship would die down, but Asians — especially subcontinentals — would get a lot pushier.

Second, legal immigration could be based on ability rather than family reunification. That would mean a lot fewer Hispanics, a few more whites, and a lot more Asians. Do you think a man married to an Indian will call for a white America?

Third, there could be an attempt to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in the name of freedom of association as a basic right. I don’t think such a bill would pass, but it may be that under eight years of President Vance, a certain amount of voluntary residential segregation becomes acceptable.

That, I believe, is as far as the American political process can take us: Trump plus a few extras. All the while, race differences in fertility rates, and the die-off of my generation of boomers will continue to make whites a minority. And non-whites will continue to resent the people who built this country.

To repeat, even this assumes the miracle of two terms of JD Vance. And the miracle — for sure — ends there. The Great Replacement will make Democrats the permanent majority. There will be nasty racial power struggles among the BIPOCs, and blacks will be pushed down the totem pole, but whites will be at the back of the bus. We will have to submit to non-whites judges, police, politicians, school teachers, media figures. Our destiny will be out of our hands.

I won’t even consider the possibility of nuclear war or a debt crisis that crushes the federal government. If Uncle Sam’s checks start bouncing — and I think that’s more likely than nuclear war — I refuse to speculate where the chaos will lead.

But no matter what happens, the United States can never again be our home, and that will become clear to millions more whites every year. There will be open calls for solutions that sound radical — even unthinkable — today. More and more whites will understand that we must have a place that belongs to us, and that place cannot be the entire USA. So, what do we do?

Today, there are about 140 million non-whites in the United States. Of that number, illegals are what — 14 or 16 million? They can be deported. Bang. Gone. Another 22 million are foreign-born but have some kind of legal status. Some would be hard to deport, but let’s assume they all go.

That still leaves 100 million non-white citizens of the United States of America. We have a strong moral case to ask them to leave. We built the country and up until the 1960s, it was unquestionably ours. It was only through a series of tricks, blunders, inattention, and cowardice that we set in motion our own dispossession. It was a colossal mistake, and millions of non-white foreigners took advantage of our mistake. By all rights, they should go. But they won’t see it that way. Their attitude will be: We’re here and the place belongs to us as much as it belongs to you, whitey.

You heard the victory speech by the Ugandan Indian Muslim who will be the next mayor of New York. He thanked his supporters: “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” He went on: “New York will remain a city of immigrants — built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

In other words: “It’s our place now, honkey, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

No one seems to have noticed, but he didn’t even throw a bone to American blacks. As I say, when non-whites are in charge, they will have no patience with the black folk.

But what I am trying to explain here is that even if a majority of whites agreed that we need a homeland, I cannot foresee the political will to persuade or force 100 million citizens to bugger off. It wouldn’t be practical and in some cases I would argue it wouldn’t be moral. American Indians: where are they supposed to go? And we brought blacks here against their will.

Therefore, our only route to a white nation is by some kind of territorial division. But, even if every single American — white and non-white — wanted to break up the country, where do you draw the boundaries? What do you do with the millions of people on the wrong side of the lines? Who gets the nukes? What happens to the national debt? These are huge problems even if every single American wanted separation.

And so, our realistic hope is to start with saving bits of wreckage. Break off pieces of America and make them ours. You will hear today about Return to the Land [a speech was given by Eric Orwoll of RTTL], which is a great beginning at doing just that. And we can go further. Racially conscious whites can move to an already majority-white, conservative town in Arkansas or Tennessee. Take over the city council, the school board, the police department. The way white attitudes are changing, that could be a success. As soon as a place got the reputation for being proudly white, non-whites wouldn’t move in. This could happen in many places and eventually spread to counties, maybe even whole states.

I do not believe the government would crush white enclaves. The National Guard won’t drive us out of our homes at bayonet point. On what grounds? What laws did we break?

Now, I would be the first to agree that this piecemeal approach is a sickening, humiliating retreat from owning the place outright the way we used to. But unless we settle for half a loaf — or even an eighth of a loaf — if we let the numbers take their course, we will be a despised minority with no loaf at all.

However, if we are diligent, if we work like demons, we could claw back enough territory to have a nation worthy of the great people that we are. It will not be top down; it will be bottom up.

What I am saying sounds dark, so it may surprise you to hear that I am more optimistic now than at any time since I started American Renaissance 35 years ago. There have been times that were so dark, I kept slogging on out of pure duty. Not now. Today, there are more people on our side, more groups, more publishers, more podcasters, more streamers, more fully out-of-the-closet racial patriots. As you saw last night, we even have a lady comedian on our side. [Leonarda Jonie spoke the evening before.]

I have always believed that when there are enough of us, the pieces of the puzzle will come together in ways we never thought of.

They say only about 30 percent of the colonists were revolutionaries, but that was enough to fight the British Empire. I think we can get 30 percent.

It certainly didn’t seem that way when I started American Renaissance. I would look out over a room of white activists and I would think: “These people are weird. They’re screwballs. No one will ever listen to them.”

Thank goodness that has changed. But we can’t be just not obviously weird. We and others who are publicly identified with our cause, must be worthy, even admirable people if we are to lead what amounts to a revolution against every institution in America.

If we are credits to our race, people will join us. There are 900 billionaires in this country. Is every one a deluded, selfish coward? There are 11,000 Americans with $100 million or more. 11,000 of them. Surely, some of them already think as we do.

But they are not going to open their wallets to just anyone.

And I’m not talking only about bringing over rich people. I’m talking about the millions of our wayward brothers and sisters, our fellow white people who must join us if we are to win.

I believe that within almost every white man and woman there still is a glow — a tiny spark of racial consciousness. That spark has been smothered by years of anti-white insanity, but we must find that spark, blow on it gently, lovingly, and turn it into a raging fire.

It is not just our ideas, our appeals to history, to morality, and to our common kinship that will persuade them. A devotion to our race is not something rational. It is a passion that springs from some place deeper, some place in our souls.

Of course, we’re right. We’re obviously right. But we have to be more than right. To appeal to slumbering passions, our appearance, our demeanor, our nature, our spirit will inspire people as much as our arguments. The love of our young men for physical fitness and self improvement is a move in exactly the right direction.

We want our fellow whites to think as we do. For that, they must also want to be as we are. We must make of ourselves the best white men and white women we can possibly be. This should always be our goal, but especially in this time of terrible crisis for our race. We must be models of honesty, manliness, integrity, courage, faithfulness, virtue. We must revive a word that has almost fallen out of our language: Honor. The Greeks lived for honor. The Founders pledged their sacred honor.

The better we are as white men and white women, the more our numbers will grow.

Many times from this podium, I have likened our struggle to the great battles our ancestors fought against aliens. The Greeks at Marathon. The Battle of Tours, the Siege of Vienna, the Afrikaners at Blood River.

We must never forget that each of us has the blood of heroes in his veins. But all those victories will amount to nothing, if we fail in this fight.

I envy the simple choice our ancestors had: Kill the enemy or die trying. If the choice were that simple, every man in this room would do his duty, cheerfully.

And although the spirit we must being to this is fight is the spirit of the battlefield, our fight is different. And much harder. It the hardest, most tragic fight in history: We have to persuade our own people — the people who created Western Civilization, for heaven’s sake — that they have the right to survive. Who ever had such a terrible task?

This is the greatest struggle in a thousand years. On us rides the fate of our people, the fate of the West, the fate of everything our ancestors fought for, the fate of everything we love.

I would give anything to be 35 years younger, to have 35 more years to serve our people, but for now, we stand shoulder to shoulder in the great cause to which we have dedicated our lives,

I may not live to see the future of our race assured and fortified against all threats, but some of you will. And in my grave, I will smile when I hear your children laughing.