Trump's Year Of Making White Nationalism Great Again

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https://globalextremism.org/post/trumps-year-of-making-white-nationalism-great-again/



As the sun sets on the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, the mechanisms of American democracy are being drastically reassembled into a vehicle for the whims of the president and his racist, authoritarian agenda. Most worrisome has been the elevation of bona fide extremists into positions of power and the implantation of white nationalist ideas into formal policy. In rhetoric and deed, the Trump administration has made alarming strides in pursuing white nationalist policies that have thrilled the far right worldwide. From the mass pardoning of the January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters, many of whom had ties to white supremacist and militia groups and white Christian nationalism, to the appointment of far-right ideologues to some of the most important positions in the country, Trump is embedding those with anti-democratic ideals into every part of the government.

These include many who have expressed antisemitism, racism or are Christian nationalists, or promoted “remigration,” a white supremacist policy of ethnic cleansing. Policies that only found support in fringe white nationalist circles are now the law of the land. Perhaps the most clearly racist policy has been a punishing wave of militarized enforcement against the “invasion” of immigrants, rhetoric once confined to hate circles, as right-wing politicians increasingly embrace the bigoted and xenophobic narratives about immigrants long popular among the extreme far right. Worse, Trump is entrenching these policies into American governance in ways that the administration hopes will survive long past his time in office.

Trump has also changed American culture for the worse. Offensive and dehumanizing language that once operated only in the fringes have become commonplace among mainstream political conversation and policy, destroying the boundaries of what is acceptable in American discourse. Here we examine how Trump has implanted white nationalism into American governance, through his appointments of racists, antisemites, and Christian nationalists, his militarized immigration policies, his war on diversity, Black history, women, and the LGBTQ+ community while reviving the Confederacy, and his empowering of far-right actors here and abroad.

Extremist Appointments: From incompetent sycophants to outright racists and antisemites, one of the most significant and immediate impacts of Trump’s presidency has been the appointment of individuals holding extremist beliefs to positions of power.

Russell Vought


Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).

Among them is Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was a co-author and key influence in the development of Project 2025, a 922-page blueprint for authoritarian governance that has guided the administration’s attacks on the rights of multiple communities, particularly women and the LGBTQ+ population, as well as the dismantling and politicization of the federal bureaucracy. Vought is so extreme, Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles described him as“a right-wing absolute zealot.” An unapologetic Christian nationalist, Vought has pushed for a radical centralization of power in the presidency, the removal of many of the checks and balances that would limit Trump’s power, and a thorough gutting of what he sees as an entrenched, anti-Trump government bureaucracy.

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1. trump hates democracy for a reason

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2. From whispers, and dog whistles To Foghorns! Hideous!

The poisonous rhetoric he's unleashed has caused fear, injury, and deaths.
Some of the worse things he's done.
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