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5. Does anyone remember the little project that MTG and Matt Gaetz...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:00 PM
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...were trying to get started a couple of years ago? IIRC, they wanted to create a white think tank...er...a "heritage" think tank that would advocate for a bleach-bath America. Essentially, no one outside of the whitest, WASPiest enclaves would be acceptable as Americans. If that sounds bizarre...it was. Their argument was that "later" immigrants (Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans, etc.) were suspect in their loyalties as American citizens. It was like going back 100+ years to a time where Sicilians were just a little too swarthy to be considered "white"; a time when "no Irish need apply".

As one might expect, when word got out about this, it was abandoned pretty quickly. Here's one of the very few articles I could find about this little dustup. I know it got some attention on DU at the time.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-marjorie-taylor-greene-immigration-eefdf9c180f69008d60ed92b9ef2ce03

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