MAGA: The battle over ‘Heritage Americans’

If your ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, are you more American than someone whose grandparents landed at Ellis Island in 1920? asked Jonah Goldberg in The Dispatch. A growing contingent of
“Very Online right-wingers” thinks so, claiming that “Heritage Americans” who can trace their family tree back to the nation’s earliest days deserve special status. This blood-and-soil nationalism—in which Jews, Asian Americans, and others are second-class citizens—has been popularized by white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes.