As a result of all this, the “new nationalism” would not “dwell on limiting the size of government but rather on the issue of who and what controls the government”; its purveyors should seek to seize the state and combat the elites who had effected the middle class’s “dispossession.” Of course, if this white middle class no longer possessed a distinct cultural ethic and lacked a shared economic basis, it was unclear what identity it still possessed other than being white.
