Are we to start cloning Americans? On Saturday, September 6. 2025, Blaze Media published an article headlined, “Patriotic assimilation is the cure for America’s identity crisis.”
To preserve one people and one nation, America must recover the expectation that immigrants adopt our creed, our culture, and our national destiny.
Andrew Beck has articulated a thick version of the assimilation of immigrants (rightly so, in my view), which harks back to the spirit of Americanization prevalent from America’s founding to roughly the 1960s. Louis Brandeis, a liberal and political ally of the detestable Woodrow Wilson, expressed this common idea of assimilation in his July 5, 1915, “Americanization Day Speech”:
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners, and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. But the adoption of our language, manners, and customs is only a small part of the process. To become Americanized, the change wrought must be fundamental. However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrants even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American.
We could characterize Americanization as the highest form of assimilation: patriotic assimilation. When an immigrant and his first-generation children leave their previous people and join the American people, it means they have an emotional attachment to our country and instinctively identify with historic America — our principles, history, and culture.
“This idea is asine because we can’t take a non-white and make their ancestors the Israelites, God’s chosen spoken of throughout the Bible.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas. Some people may know know this, but I am also the Pastor of the Christian Revival Center here in Harrison too. Speaking Biblically, it is impossible for God’s chosen people to expect non-whites to also become God’s chosen, and this is exactly what is wrong in America today. God didn’t create us all equally. If He had, there would be no chosen people. If there is no chosen people, then that would mean there were no Israelites. The many people who came from European countries to settle in America, those people, also descendants of the Israelites, they fit into our culture, history, and heritage. These non-white invaders do not, and the proof is in the arrests and crimes committed by them.”
