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

Jason Wilson: White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s #Grokipedia. World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist #disinformation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist
#musk #whitenationalism #antisemitism #holocaust #racism #jaredtaylor #KevinMacDonald #WilliamLutherPierce #eugenics #Rhodesia

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

This isn't news or anything -- no one reading this is likely to be surprised to hear that the Trump admin is openly racist or that they're unapologetically making that explicit in their policies. Still, it seems worth recording that it's not just Trump's most vocal critics who think that. It's also overt white supremacists.

The quote below comes from Jared Taylor, arguably the leading intellectual of the white nationalist movement in the US over the past couple of decades. It's in response to reporting that Trump is considering fast-tracking intakes for white, English-speaking "refugees" from South Africa and for Europeans who support right-wing parties and oppose immigration (because logic!).

Taylor is so influential among people who want to dress basic racism up as something noble that he has served as both a mentor to Richard Spencer and an inspiration for the mass shooter who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, SC, in 2015 (the killer's manifesto cited Taylor by name). At age 74, Taylor still organizes the biggest annual far-right conference in the US every year, cavorts with members of Patriot Front, and regularly publishes material written by neo-nazis and white separatists. He's also such a smug, elitist asshole that I've been referring to him as Nazi Thurston Howell for years. (Sorry, you may need to be kind of old to get that.)

Taylor isn't the only one who approves of the administration's proposed policy changes. Nick Fuentes discussed them this week and said "if this happens, I think this is great," adding that he wanted to give "credit where credit is due," despite his criticisms of certain other aspects of the Trump administration. The hosts of Red Ice were critical, but agreed that "it's a good gesture, at least." An accelerationist neo-nazi Telegram account approvingly noted that "Whites only is the only sane immigration policy for Western nations."

At any rate, no, the fact that Trump is considering policies like this shouldn't be surprising at this point. The response from explicit white nationalists shouldn't be either. But I do think it's worth noting as a kind of signpost of the direction this administration is going. There are still a lot of neo-nazis who can't bring themselves to say anything positive about Trump because they think he's too cozy with Jews, but the evidence here suggests that, in general, they're probably quietly pleased with this.

#NeoNazis #fcknzs #USPol #Trump #accelerationism #NickFuentes #JaredTaylor

#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/

https://www.404media.co/opm-memos-to-federal-employees-metadata/

A memo with the subject line “Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work” sent from Charles Ezell, acting director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and dated January 24, was authored by a “Peters, Noah,” according to the file’s metadata. Peters is an attorney who represented white nationalist Jared Taylor who sued Twitter in 2018 for banning him (and lost). In 2021, Peters wrote about Kyle Rittenhouse (who brought an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest and killed two people), saying Rittenhouse should be able to “reap some measure of restitution now that he’s been acquitted” from the journalists who covered his case.

#USPol #MAGA #trump #nazi #fascism #jaredtaylor #project2025

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

In case there's any real doubt as to whether the reactionary intelligentsia and their would-be stormtroopers actually talk to each other, this brand new photo couldn't really make the connection much clearer:

On the left is white nationalist impresario Jared Taylor (or, as I like to call him, Nazi Thurston Howell), who is responsible for one of the most prominent "intellectual" white nationalist websites in the US as well as a major annual conference.

On the right is Gregory Arthur Klaunberg* (aka Rainhart Gregory Arthurson**), a neo-Nazi who figures prominently in the article I posted last night.

Seems the two of them came together at Nick Fuentes' AFPAC, because duh.

Anyways, yeah, Nazis do read books. A lot. Their ideas are totally disconnected from reality, but that doesn't make them less interested in reading heady books and articles. On the contrary, I'd say it's actually part of the draw.

* Yes, that would actually be pronounced "clown-berg" in German. I have no idea how he pronounces it in English.

** You need to be extra suspicious of fashy assholes of any stripe who adopt the pseudonym "Rainhart" or similar. Former Identity Evropa leader Sean Casey, for one, used the pseudonym Reinhard Wolf when he was working as a "journalist." If you open Wikipedia and type in "Reinhard," the first person who comes up is Reinhard Heydrich, also known as "the Butcher of Prague." After Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich was really the next most important figure in the execution of "the final solution" under the Nazi regime. Sure, it's possible that either Klaunberg or Casey just like the name, or borrowed it from their great, great granddad, or something else. Possible, in theory, but unlikely, and plausible deniability is their whole deal. As I said, they do read books. History is not lost on them. They just interpret it in the cruelest ways imaginable.

#JaredTaylor #WhiteNationalism #NeoNazis #fcknzs #AFPAC #NickFuentes