Russell Contreras

I think the path to whiteness has widened.

Where in the past, if you were a black conservative or Latino conservative, you could engage in conservative spaces, but you were never accepted as fully white.

Now it's different.

Those structures are now allowing Black people and Latinos to enter as long as they endorse certain ideas.

I think it's different because right now, since MAGA controls the conservative movement, if you're able to express these views, you go sit at the MAGA table.

So if you are embracing things like white replacement theory.

So you can go straight to the top.

You're right there at the seat.

So you're shared on social media.

Your views go up on YouTube.

You're now part of the crew, right?

And theoretically, if you embrace these ideas, it gives you access to other things.

Power, money, a business model that, let's be honest, if you're on the other side of civil rights, they struggle to raise money for a lawsuit challenge.

It's a path right now, and we're seeing the multicultural right, the very conservative right, because there's always been a multicultural right, but the very conservative right, embrace it because it's offering some pathway to something.

It's offering a new pathway to upward mobility that offers immediate rewards.

It offers immediate satisfaction.

It offers immediate gratification.

And we've never had that so fast, so quickly.

You can start up your social media account and pop off and there you go, you got the views.

Well, this is like critical race theory 101, right?