American paleoconservative political theorist who wrote Leviathan and Its Enemies — extending Burnham's managerial revolution thesis to argue that the middle American working class faces permanent subjugation under an alliance of corporate and government managers — and who was fired from the Washington Times for his white nationalist views.
Extended Burnham's managerial revolution analysis to race and culture — Francis argued that the managerial elite's ideological weapon against the middle American majority is cultural liberalism (multiculturalism, anti-racism), and that this elite-versus-populace conflict explains contemporary American politics better than conventional Left-Right categories.
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