The Forced Return to Tribalism

... the United States has been deliberately, systematically thrust back into the primordial state of tribalism.

The grand policy experiment of unchecked multiculturalism and engineered mass immigration has not enriched us - it has shattered the unifying civilizational framework that once bound diverse peoples under a common ethos, a common law, and a common destiny. We now confront a stark, non-negotiable reality: if the old-stock peoples of this land do not rapidly form enduring, functional tribes and tribal alliances, the United States as a coherent and sovereign polity will fracture and perish within our generation...

To understand the depth of this betrayal, one must first grasp the true tapestry of our making. The ethnic composition of North America isn’t a modern invention but a complex historical stratification spanning millennia...

The foundational layer belongs to the Indigenous peoples, who migrated via the Bering land bridge approximately 15,000–20,000 years ago... Natives who fought with honor and bravery beside and against us in every conflict our ancestors have known in defense of these lands...

The European arrival came in waves, each leaving a distinct mark. The Spaniards, under Juan Ponce de León, made their first documented landing on the mainland of Florida in 1513, establishing the first permanent European settlement at St. Augustine in 1565. They were not alone. Africans arrived on that same Florida coast in 1513, with individuals like the free Black conquistador Juan Garrido accompanying Spanish expeditions. The forced migration of Africans escalated tragically, with the first enslaved Africans arriving at Jamestown in 1619...

This vast, sprawling tapestry of peoples - Italians like Cabot in 1497, Portuguese explorers by 1501, Frenchmen in 1524, Germans in Jamestown by 1607 - did not coalesce by accident. It was forged under the weight of an English civilizational core. Our foundational documents - the U.S. Constitution (1787), the Bill of Rights (1791), and our common law - are not philosophical abstractions. They’re direct, lineal descendants of England’s Magna Carta and the 1689 English Bill of Rights...

“Old-stock American” therefore... is a lineage of sacrifice in the crucibles that shaped the nation...

The crisis we face is the direct result of the post-1965 Hart-Celler Act, which repudiated this historical model. Since then, over 100 million immigrants (a number deliberately obscured by governments and NGOs) have flooded into the country. This isn’t natural migration; it’s demographic displacement, and its consequences are measured in national ruin...

Multiculturalism wasn’t a gentle compassionate experiment; it was a total lie. It divided our communities, dumbed down our populace, bankrupted our future, and turned our civic spaces into open sewers of despair and violence. It’s forced a reversion to tribal identity as the only remaining line of defense...

We’re the custodians of that more-than-thousand-year-old civilizational thread. If we fail to ally within and across our old-stock lines, the United States will disintegrate into centuries of poverty and violence in our lifetimes...

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About American Identity And America, by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, 23 December 2025.