In one sense, the existence of "far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants" might be the most obvious thing I've ever posted on social media.

On the other hand, the details are pretty interesting. For all the managerial ineptitude of the Trump administration, the continuity between it and leaders in both the intellectual and on-the-ground brawler contingents of far-right activism in the US is striking. Some of the people mentioned here cite Carl Schmitt (albeit in the most superficial way possible), use jargon like "Heritage Americans," and talk about a left-wing "all out war" on the right, thereby justifying all-out reciprocity.

Others point to the influence Jared Taylor has had on their thinking. Taylor (I like to call him "Nazi Thurston Howell," but that's just me) is best known as the leading figure behind the American Renaissance website and the annual white nationalist conference by the same name, but he has also been a spokesman for the Council of Conservative Citizens, in which capacity he helped inspire the 2015 white supremacist mass shooting in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine people dead. Taylor has also more recently been openly cavorting with members of Patriot Front as well as "active club" founder Rob Rundo.

This article doesn't delve too deeply into it, but it also hints at reaffirming antisemitism as a (maybe "the") major fault line within the US far right today. Several of the people mentioned here are at least very comfortable with some pretty deeply antisemitic ideas. However Taylor, for instance, says he opposes antisemitism and has been very open to the ideas and participation of far-right Jews in white nationalist spaces, and members of the Heritage Foundation have clearly taken a "philo-semitic" position in a variety of areas.

Anyways, like I said, nothing earth-shattering or all that surprising here, but I do think it's important to keep tabs on the details of just what kind of "leadership" we're all being subjected to. Worth reading.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/project-2025-heritage-foundation-hack

#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #CarlSchmitt #antisemitism #JaredTaylor #AmRen #AmericanRenaissance #racism #PatriotFront #ActiveClub #RobRundo #CCC #fascism

For far-right actors in the US, antifa is the "woke mind virus" inside their own heads. They keep trying to understand it, and they keep failing.

So white nationalist website American Renaissance recently published an interview with an alleged former “Antifa member” who has seen the light and finally embraced white nationalism. And true to form, the interviewer is just as clueless after the interview as before it.

For your reading pleasure, I wrote up a breakdown of the whole thing.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/amren-tries-and-fails-to-understand-what-antifa-is-0ac69d7c5717

#antifa #antifascism #AmericanRenaissance #AmRen #JaredTaylor #NationalAlliance #fascism #fcknzs

#Nazis #UK #PatrioticAlternative #AmericanRenaissance #JaredTaylor

"Notorious US racist allowed into UK for nazi conference

One of America’s most notorious racists has been allowed into Britain to speak at a conference staged by unrepentant nazis, several of whose followers have been jailed for terrorist offences.

Jared Taylor, founder of American Renaissance, is to be star speaker on Saturday at the Patriotic Alternative conference being held at a so-far undisclosed East Midlands location.

PA is headed by Mark Collett, whose admiration for nazis and Ulster terrorists was revealed by a Channel 4 film, and Laura Towler, who makes no secret of her admiration for the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

Towler’s husband Sam Melia recently served a jail sentence for inciting racial hatred, and many other PA activists have been jailed for serious crimes.

Former prison officer Ash Podsiad-Sharp, is serving an eight-year sentence for terrorism offences including possession of what the court described as a 'murder manual', and PA’s 'fitness guru' Kris Kearney, was jailed in 2023 for terrorist crimes involving the manifestos of several mass murderers.

Like Collett, Kearney is an open admirer of Adolf Hitler."

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/notorious-us-racist-allowed-into-uk-for-nazi-conference/

Report on the American Renaissance conference in Montgomery Bell State Park, Burns, Tennessee, a few weeks ago.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/inside-the-influential-white-supremacist-conference-that-calls-tennessee-home-away-from-home

#AmRen #AmericanRenaissance #JaredTaylor #fascism #fcknzs #PatriotFront #ThomasRousseau

From the article:

Hatewatch has identified a previously pseudonymous author and ideologue whose writings in the 2000s and early 2010s heavily influenced the “manosphere,” a loose network of blogs, forums, websites and influencers who support rolling back women’s rights, reject feminism and advocate for rigid gender roles.

Christopher Moore, 60, is a former academic who has written under the pen name “Francis Roger Devlin” or “F. Roger Devlin” since the early 2000s. He is the author of the highly influential 2006 essay “Sexual Utopia in Power” and a 2015 book by the same name. Both works argue that men are victimized by policies and other efforts to promote sexual and gender equality, which he argues have “made men less attractive to women” and “probably contributed significantly to the decline in Western birthrates.” White nationalists and more mainstream far-right figures have credited Moore’s work as Devlin with shaping the male supremacist movement, or “manosphere,” into what it is today.

“Everyone who has read Devlin seems to have started a blog or YouTube channel,” David Futrelle, a researcher on the radical right, wrote in 2013, referring to “Devlin’s” essays as a “Manospherian urtext.”

#Manosphere #MaleSupremacy #Misogyny #GreatReplacement #WhiteNationalism #GregJohnson #CounterCurrents #ChristopherMoore #AmRen #AmericanRenaissance #JaredTaylor #CouncilOfConcervativeCitizens #TheOccidentalQuarterly #SexualUtopiaInPower #Incels

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/08/29/white-nationalist-male-supremacist-author-identified