I would agree partially since subjectivists are not entirely driven by “avoiding heretical patterns of thought”. After all there are strong economics arguments to curb immigration. Economics is in the center of public discourse yet you rarely see such treatment of immigration debate. The point is you don’t even need ‘heretic’ justifications to oppose immigration.

But subjectivists by definition can’t evaluate merits of competing cultures so it is possible they just fail to see economic consequences of immigration. For example: poorly educated immigrants that came in last six years (finished primary or secondary school), amount in size to 40% of all registered unemployed in my country (EU). Meaning unemployment could be reduced by up to 40% by restricting low quality immigration. BTW unemployment hoovers around 14% which is huge. That is a huge cost and we didn’t even start talking about race.

Immigration debate is economic as well as racial issue. First kind of arguments are benign, the second ‘heretic’. It is beyond me how we lost on both counts.

But what follows is that conservatives didn’t just fail to look after white interests, they failed to look after the interests of all US citizens (immigration of Mexicans hurts blacks disproportionately more than whites). On the other hand immigration always benefits businessmen. Maybe it’s time for Americans as well as Europeans to realize we are both run by oligarchy.