I am tweeting about this again because it is bananas. Not much different than Bannon citing The Protocols. https://t.co/ynuP0ZhWwC— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) March 4, 2017
Excerpts come across as a European version of The Turner Diaries, though the latter object appeared a few years later.
The content speaks for itself. As far as the books getting into the hands of receptive readers—
The U.S. publishing house Scribner was the first to translate the book into English in 1975, but it failed to reach a wide audience amid withering reviews by critics. A rare favorable take appeared in National Review. "Raspail brings his reader to the surprising conclusion that killing a million or so starving refugees from India would be a supreme act of individual sanity and cultural health," then-The Racist-In-Chief doesn't read books. But it's illuminating to see where his right-hand "intellectual" draws his inspiration.
Dartmouth professor Jeffrey Hart wrote in 1975. "Raspail is to genocide what [D.H. Lawrence] was to sex." Hart added that "a great fuss" was being made over "Raspail's supposed racism," but that the "liberal rote anathema on 'racism' is in effect a poisonous assault upon Western self-preference."
The book received a second life in 1983 when Cordelia Scaife May, heiress to the Mellon fortune and sister to right-wing benefactor Richard Mellon Scaife, funded its republication and distribution. This time it gained a cult following among immigration opponents.
May's money has also been instrumental in funding the efforts of John Tanton, the godfather of the anti-immigration movement in the U.S. Tanton, who began as an environmentalist and population control proponent, founded a host of groups focused on restricting immigration, including the Federation of American Immigration Reform, the Center for Immigration Studies, NumbersUSA and U.S. English. May's fortune has fueled these groups with tens of millions of dollars in contributions over the years.
