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July 2, 2020 11 comments

Everyone Hates Woodrow Wilson

Robert Hampton

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Woodrow Wilson once stood as a hero to modern progressives. The 28th president’s moral idealism, disregard for constitutional fealty, and belief in the goodness of “big government” endeared him to liberals of the Barack Obama era. Commentators positively noted the similarities between Wilson and Obama — both were professors, both were self-professed intellectuals, both allegedly put principles over petty politics, etc.

Now Woodrow Wilson is officially canceled. Princeton’s prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Relations announced it was dropping the president from its name.

“Princeton is part of an America that has too often disregarded, ignored, and turned a blind eye to racism, allowing the persistence of systems that discriminate against black people,” Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber said in an op-ed explaining his decision. “Our commitment to eliminate racism must be unequivocal, and that is why we removed the name of Princeton’s modern-day founder from its School of Public and International Affairs.”

Eisgruber described Wilson as a racist. “He discouraged black applicants from applying to Princeton,” he wrote in the op-ed. “While president of the United States, Wilson segregated the previously integrated federal civil service, thereby moving the United States backward in its quest for racial justice and contributing to the systemic racism that continues to damage black lives and our country today.”

Just a few years ago, Eisgruber defended Wilson for turning Princeton into the world-class university it is today. Now the former Princeton president Wilson is only fit for history’s dustbin.

The move was celebrated by many conservatives. Wilson has long served as the dreaded visage of liberal fascism to the American Right. Jonah Goldberg put Wilson at the top of his American villains in his awful book, Liberal Fascism. Glenn Beck said “I hate Woodrow Wilson with everything in me,” and put Wilson at the center of all of his big-government conspiracies. Conservatives generally hate Wilson for expanding the size of government and disregarding a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

But conservatives also like to bash Wilson for the same reasons liberals do.

“Wilson was one of the most despicable characters in 20th-century American politics: a national embarrassment,” National Review writer David Harsanyi said in an op-ed celebrating Wilson’s cancellation. “The Virginian didn’t merely hold racist ‘views’; he re-segregated the federal civil service. He didn’t merely involve the United States in a disastrous war in Europe after promising not to do so; he threw political opponents and anti-war activists into prison. Wilson, the first president to show open contempt for the Constitution and the Founding, was a vainglorious man unworthy of honor.”

Harsanyi said that Warren G. Harding, a complete mediocrity of a president, should replace Wilson in all public honors.

Many on the Dissident Right also hate Wilson. They hate him for being the proto-neocon for applying moral universalism to foreign policy. They hate him for getting America involved in World War I and participating in the destruction of the German Empire. They hate him for being a supporter of the creation of Israel. They hate him for giving America the Federal Reserve. In their eyes, he was the ultimate liberal who made the world safe for GloboHomo.

There are justifiable reasons to disdain the Wilson of the League of Nations and democratic evangelism. But he’s not being canceled for being a proto-neocon — he’s being canceled for being a “racist.” The New America can’t honor alleged bigots, no matter how much those bigots contributed to the progressive takeover.

Wilson’s toppling is nothing to cheer about. His removal signals the end for all dead white men. It also highlights the good aspects of the Virginian intellectual. Wilson was a bit too idealistic about democracy and the League of Nations was a terrible idea. But he was a man who saw America as a white nation that should proudly stand up for its racial identity.

He wanted our immigration policy to ensure America remained a white man’s country.  “We cannot make a homogeneous population out of people who do not blend with the Caucasian race. . . Oriental coolieism will give us another race problem to solve, and surely we have had our lesson,” he said in 1912 in support of Asian exclusion laws.

Liberals and conservatives castigate Wilson for segregating the federal civil service and reducing black opportunities in government. The move was intended that the government of a white nation remained white. “Long ago we determined that the Negro never should be our master,” said Wilson’s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Skelton Williams. Wilson himself supported segregation because he felt the races could not get along if they shared the same spaces. “We know that there is a point at which there is apt to be friction, and that is in the intercourse between the two races,” he told a black delegation in 1914.

While he wanted the world to embrace liberal democracy, he did not hold the neocon illusion that an American lives inside every person in the world. He opposed racial equality on the global stage, striking down Japan’s demand that a racial equality clause be included in the League of Nations charter. The president thought this would send the wrong message to non-white nations.

Wilson championed eugenics and supported laws that would sterilize career criminals and the mentally disabled.

He was also a proud Southerner who helped popularize Birth of a Nation and honored the Confederacy. He hosted screenings of Birth at the White House. “It’s like writing history with lightning. My only regret is that it is all so terribly true,” Wilson said of the epic film. The film, of course, attacks Reconstruction as an oppressive regime imposed on white southerners by corrupt Northerners and their dastardly black allies. Birth lionizes white resistance to Reconstruction and incorporated quotes from Wilson’s popular A History of the American People.

Wilson wrote in that book: “The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.” Wilson wrote in his younger years that “the determination of the Saxon race of the South that the negro race shall never again rule over them is, then, not unnatural and it is necessarily unalterable,” he said. He concluded that whites must maintain a “united resistance to the domination of an ignorant race.”

He praised the North and South reconciling after the Civil War on behalf of their shared Anglo identity and blood, saying this commonality led to the united America of the World War I era. He argued this nation was founded by “men of the sturdy stocks of the North of Europe” and lamented the “sordid” effect of alien populations.

Wilson’s progressivism was motivated by the desire to challenge corporate power on behalf of the common man. It was an ideology that wanted to use state power to push against the power of monopolies and selfish tycoons. It imagined Americans as a homogenous people with an agreed-upon common good. It was not the corporate-backed extortion scheme of modern racial grievance movements.

Wilson also appointed one of the most racially conscious justices in American history to the Supreme Court: James McReynolds. His last attorney general was Mitchell Palmer, a staunch anti-communist who led the Palmer Raids against foreign radicals and domestic subverters. The raids resulted in the deportation of hundreds of foreign leftists.

Wilson may not be a Dissident hero, and there are certainly problems with him. Wilson’s idealism led him to espouse some of the goofiest platitudes of liberalism, but he wasn’t as depraved as modern liberals. He understood race and saw America as a nation created by whites and for whites.

For those sins alone, he must be canceled.

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11 comments

  1. james says:
    July 2, 2020 at 9:00 am

    You make him out to be better than I ever thought, still he was an utter failure and traitor to the nation and died admitting that.

  2. Beau Albrecht says:
    July 2, 2020 at 10:21 am

    Just as I predicted:
    https://rainbowalbrecht.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/after-the-confederate-statues-are-gone-who-will-they-go-after-next/

  3. Mac says:
    July 2, 2020 at 10:35 am

    There’s several politicians alive today that once had common sense views on race, and had policies to match, before embracing the current anti white zeitgeist. I have no reason to believe Wilson would be any different than them if he happened born a century later. Regardless of the good things he did, his legacy is treasonous and still haunts us to this day.

    Speaking of, I was thinking that when Biden dies we should pooh-pooh the bad things he did and lionize him. After all he is a white guy who locked up criminal blacks, used to speak honestly about race and will have a legacy of harming the Western world- probably not as much as Wilson, but he’ll be in good company at least.

  4. HamburgerToday says:
    July 2, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    Woodrow Wilson was, I believe, one of the major figures in the ‘self-determination of nations’ school of thought that many on this side of the Great Divide. If only he’d upheld self-determination for the White race with regard to WWI, he might not be held in such low esteem by the racially aware. No one gets a pass on facilitating brother-wars.

  5. Tykebomb says:
    July 2, 2020 at 4:54 pm

    Wilson thought he, us, would rule forever. His moves look a lot better from atop the world in 20th century White civilization. The center of world jewry was in rural Russia when Wilson lost his mind. It was only when the Nazis lost that America became the new home of the majority of Jews.

    Wilson is a warning. Things change after you die.

  6. Nicholas R. Jeelvy says:
    July 3, 2020 at 12:35 am

    Why yes, Mr. Hampton, the nutcase radicals of the past seem sane compared to our current crop of fruitcakes.

  7. Anton W says:
    July 3, 2020 at 4:01 am

    When someone tells you that you have to work against people of European stock in order to be ‘on the right side of history,’ remind them of how the historical memory of Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill is being treated right now. Treason against your own people can only ever benefit you in the short term, if at all.

  8. Jud Jackson says:
    July 3, 2020 at 7:05 am

    Thank you Mr. Hampton.

    You correctly point out all of Wilson’s flaws. But you showed me some of his virtues that I did not know about. At this point, I still rate Harding/Coolidge (mainly Coolidge) as the greatest of America’s 20th Century presidents. But I rank Wilson as the second greatest.

    1. Adrian says:
      July 5, 2020 at 7:42 am

      I agree with you. I have learned many good things about Woodrow Wilson from this article that I never even suspected.

  9. E. Perez says:
    July 5, 2020 at 9:07 am

    Among the many catastrophic US policy decisions which brought us into the situation we are in, it is difficult to point to a single most important one. But it is certain that the root cause of our current disaster is Wilson’s declaration of war in 1917, pushed by the usual suspects and the Balfour declaration. Wilson’s cynicism was without precedence: “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

    Without US entry, WWI would have ended 2 years and some millions of casualties earlier (following a German peace proposal in 1916), no Versailles, no Weimar, no Hitler, and most significantly, no WWII and no hostile Jewish elites promoting White Genocide.

    “Wilson’s toppling is nothing to cheer about.”

    Oh yes, it is. But we should provide the correct reasons. And warn our contemporary race traitors that their statues will be toppled in the same way.

  10. Symmachus says:
    September 26, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    I personally think he was one of the worst people in the history of mankind, he was not racially aware but a complete puppet of Jews like Max Warburg and Bernard Baruch and almost soley responsible for the jewish domination of the US today due to his creation of both the Federal Reserve and Israel. Just read his speeches, he was a batshit crazy globalist and a monster.

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