My original screen name was banned in 2005 for participating in anti illegal alien posts. Seems at the time Jim was very much pro illegal alien.
FR is far from lockstep, or mainstream, GOP discussions.
In general, we’re just pro-American.
I can see how from Sailer’s perspective (Vdare permabanned) it’s mainstream. But there is no doubt FR missed a golden opportunity to move the debate on border protection in the early 2000s. The open-border GOPe (cheap labor uber alles!) crowd held far too much sway here at that time. FR was, and is, conservative on most subjects, but in the early 2000s, it was way off the mark on border protection.
I remember it was not allowed to even post articles on the Minutemen! That was a bannable offence! Patriotic Americans who wanted to help the USBP to guard our borders were considered something nasty, near to neo-Nazis here on FR.
Yep, FR missed a golden opportunity to shift the debate back when it would have really mattered. And our border is still wide open.