During the first 48 hours of President Donald Trump's second termHe has taken action on almost every culture war topic that has excited his base in the past 12 months, including signing dozens of executive orders targeting immigrants, gender expression count, environmentand DEI policy.
Trump also has it be pardoned or have their sentences reduced of every participant in the violent Capitol insurrection in 2021. Meanwhile, his close ally Elon Musk has energized an even more extreme faction among his supporters Trump, by the way Nazi salute on stage—twice—in front of thousands in DC and millions watching on TV.
Trump's actions have created a lot of excitement among the far right in America. They have also been hailed as a blueprint by a passionate fan base of far-right lawmakers, extremist influencers and white supremacist groups across the globe. And those people and organizations now believe that Trump's actions should not only be copied but taken to the next level.
“It is not just a political success,” Martin Sellner, far-right activist and leader of the Austrian Identity Movement, wrote on his Telegram channel. “It was a metaphysical victory: ending wokeness and transgender ideology, stopping illegal immigration, and many other ideas that have been normalized in society.”
“These extremists think that this is the way to go, that their country needs to learn lessons from what Trump is proposing, and they must not be weak in the face of it, nor should they let activists Sobriety stands in their way, because everyone knows that the right thing to do is to get rid of immigrants,” said Wendy Via, Executive Director of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism , told WIRED.
The seller, who was was in contact with the Christchurch massacre shooteris best known for popularizing the white nationalist concept of “migration,” the idea of ethnic cleansing of all non-white citizens of Western nations. That extremist ideology has attracted the attention of other far-right groups in Europe, including Substitute for Germany (AfD) and the Austrian Freedom Party. Trump even promote “migration” in September.
Now, Sellner believes Trump's return to the Oval Office signals the moment to bring his agenda into the mainstream.
“By moving deeper into the realm of the ‘ineffable,’ we get off the defensive and for the first time actually move the Overton Window to the right,” Sellner writes. “Even if you think Trumpism has gone far enough, you should still support the extremists.”
The seller is not alone in Europe. Across the continent, far-right figures praised Trump's actions on migration and gender issues and called on leaders in their countries to follow suit.
In France, the Identity Generation group, the youth wing of the far-right Identity movement, wrote on Telegram: “Migration is in full swing. Identitarianism has won ideologically, it will only take time for this victory to be reflected in the physical world.”
In Ireland, far-right influencer Keith Woods and ally of American white supremacist Nick Fuentesshared a clip of Musk's Nazi salute with the caption: “Ok maybe waking up really is dead.” Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor, who has been associated with Ireland's far-right community in recent years, was at the Capitol for the inauguration and met with House Speaker Mike Johnson. McGregor praised Trump's immigration policies and wrote on Instagram, “Ireland and its human trafficking business need to be absolutely dismantled! It is a violation of our security and sovereignty. To me it is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY.” (McGregor recently said he was considering running for president in Ireland, which is a symbolic role but doesn't carry any real power.)