See earlier by James Kirkpatrick: DeSantis Blowing It In Florida—Hapless GOP Not Adjusting To Race-Based Politics

The two most important elections this cycle are the gubernatorial races in Georgia and Florida. Both feature what will almost certainly be the future of American politics everywhere: a black socialist versus a white populist. Both elections are tight. In Florida, the black socialist (Andrew Gillum) has a modest lead over his white populist opponent (Ron DeSantis)—the Real Clear Politics poll average puts the lead at 4.4 percent. In Georgia, the white populist, Brian Kemp, has a modest lead over his black socialist opponent, Stacey Abrams—the Real Clear Politics polls average puts the lead at 2.0 percent. As usual, the Left understands the racial dynamics [The Fearless Rise of the Black Southern Progressive by Bob Moser, The New Republic, October 10, 2018], while the clueless GOP/GAP insists upon feigning “colorblindness” and quacking about the economy. As a canvasser for Kemp in the Atlanta area, I’ve seen the results. They’re food for thought.

I do believe the polls are right and that Kemp will win, albeit narrowly. The reactions I have been getting are largely positive, and I have encountered many people who have voted early—which is always a good sign.

While there are certainly more Abrams than Kemp lawn signs out there, this is a very deceptive indicator. Republicans are always less likely to show their support for a candidate to strangers because of their understandable fear of vandalism, or even physical violence. Democrats do not have this problem. This is American in 2018.

Still, Kemp’s edge is not big enough for me to feel totally confident.

One anecdote: On Sunday I was knocking on doors in a ritzy northern suburb, and a black private security officer informed me that I was in a de facto gated community (there were no literal gates), where no soliciting of any kind was allowed. I smiled and lied that I would stop and go somewhere else.

Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com

The level of political violence in the U.S. is rising. The main reason for this, of course: the license given by our Establishment to the Antifa movement of Communist thugs. But will violence spread from the streets to the soldiers? I know, it sounds crazily apocalyptic. But it’s being discussed in Britain.

Twice recently—in Charlottesville last year, and in Portland, Oregon two weeks ago—we have seen municipal police forces deliberately stood down by their political superiors so that Antifa could control the streets. The Establishment's media shills either find a way to frame the subsequent violence as someone else's fault, as at Charlottesville, or else they just ignore it, as in Portland.

That is the context in which to evaluate the clashes in New York City on October 12 between Antifa activists and Gavin McInnes's Proud Boys.

Gavin, who is a friend of mine, was to speak at the Metropolitan Republican Club on the Upper East Side. A few hours before his appearance, Antifa vandalized the building, breaking a window and spray-painting anarchist symbols. [Republican club on Upper East Side vandalized, by Katherine Lavacca, Larry Celona and Ben Feuerherd, NY Post, October 12, 2018]Gavin showed up and spoke anyway, but his appearance was followed by street fighting between Antifa and Proud Boys.

New York State's corrupt and cynical Governor Andrew Cuomo, a puppet of the far-Left public-sector unions, blamed it on McInnes, who is just a guy with opinions outside the Narrative.

The New York Times report was bare-faced Establishment propaganda: they report, for instance, that Gavin brandished a sword, without telling their readers it was a plastic sword, a theatrical prop for some point Gavin wanted to make in his talk. [Proud Boys Fight at G.O.P. Club Spurs Calls for Inquiry; Cuomo Blames Trump, by Ashley Southall and Tyler Pager, October 14, 2018]They describe the Proud Boys as, quote, "a far-right group" but Antifa as … what, do you think? "A far-left group"? No, as "anti-fascist activists," taking them at their own evaluation. They're fighting fascism, you see? Just like the lads who stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day.

It’s not a shock that Postmodernism has taken hold of subjects such as Literature or Social Anthropology. The more subjective the subject is, the easier it is for ideology to infiltrate it. But surely quantitative science—like genetics and physics—will survive as a fortress of logic? Wrong. An article this week in The New York Times interviewed “woke” geneticists, whose findings manifestly show that race and psychological racial differences are biological, revealing them clutching at the most desperate reasons why their research doesn’t prove what it clearly does.  [Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed), By Amy Harmon,  The New York Times, October 17, 2018] Hard science has fallen to the latter-day Communists.

If someone excels in math, they excel in logical reasoning so, in general, you can expect them to possess an almost robotic ability to see through the emotion and dogma that props up Postmodernism. This may well be one of the reasons why SJWs had to make an example of CERN physicist Professor Alessandro Strumia earlier this month. [Cern physicist suspended over 'highly offensive' presentation on sexism in science, by Tom Embury-Dennis, Independent, October 2, 2018]

Next Tuesday night, October 23, VDARE.com’s syndicated columnist Ann Coulter is signing copies of her best-seller Resistance Is Futile at in support of CA-8 immigration patriot hopeful Tim Donnelly [Republican congressional candidate Tim Donnelly to host reception, book signing with Ann Coulter in Victorville, by Sandra Emerson, The Sun, October 17, 2018]. Bur inexplicably, President Trump is on the wrong side of this race—evidence that his unquestionable transformation of the GOP into a National Conservative party still has a long way to go, not least among his own advisors.

VDARE.com readers will remember Donnelly as the hero who challenged the GOP Establishment in the 2014 California gubernatorial race. A state assemblyman and co-founder of the California Minutemen, he was the one candidate in the race to make a sensible stand on immigration (not quite as much as VDARE.com wanted, but hey…). Needless to say, the GOP Establishment and the Main Stream Media both viciously attacked Donnelly for this stand and his past “offensive” comments on the issue, yet, in a Trumpian move, he refused to apologize or back down.