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The global far right celebrates Trump’s new world order

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The global far right celebrates Trump's new world order

In the first 48 hours of President Donald Trump’s second term, he has taken action on virtually every culture war issue that has excited his base over the past 12 months, including signing dozens of executive orders targeting immigrants, gender expression, the environment and DEI policies.

Trump has also pardoned or commuted the sentences of everyone who participated in the violent insurrection at the Capitol in 2021. Meanwhile, his close ally Elon Musk has strengthened an even more extremist wing of Trump supporters, making a salute Nazi. on stage, twice, in front of thousands of people in DC and millions of people watching on television.

Trump’s actions have generated much enthusiasm among the far right in the United States. They have also been hailed as a model by a fan base of far-right lawmakers, extremist influencers and white supremacist groups around the world. And those people and organizations now believe that Trump’s actions should not only be copied, but taken to the next level.

“It is more than just a political success,” Martin Sellner, a far-right activist and leader of the Austrian Identitarian Movement, wrote on his Telegram channel. “It is a metapolitical victory: the end of wokeness and trans ideology, stopping illegal immigration and many other ideas have become normalized in society.”

“These extremists think that this is the way forward, that their countries need to learn a lesson from what Trump is proposing, and they should not weaken about it and not let woke activists get in their way, because everyone knows that the right thing to do is get rid of immigrants,” Wendy Via, executive director of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, tells WIRED.

Sellner, who once He contacted the Christchurch massacre shooter.He is best known for popularizing the white nationalist concept of “remigration,” the idea of ​​ethnically cleansing Western nations of all non-white citizens. That extremist ideology has gained traction among other far-right groups in Europe, including the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Austria’s Freedom Party. Trump even promoted “remigration” in September.

Now, Sellner believes Trump’s return to the Oval Office signals the time to bring his agenda to the mainstream.

“By moving further into the realm of the ‘indescribable’ we came off the defensive and truly moved the Overton window to the right for the first time,” Sellner wrote. “Even if you think Trumpism goes far enough, you should support the radical flank.”

Sellner is not alone in Europe. Across the continent, far-right figures praised Trump’s actions on migration and gender, and called on their own countries’ leaders to follow his example.

In France, the group Generation Identity, the youth wing of the far-right identitarian movement, wrote on Telegram: “Remigration is in full swing. Identitarianism has won ideologically, it will just take time for this victory to be reflected in the material world.”

In Ireland, Keith Woods, the far-right influencer and ally of American white supremacist Nick Fuentes, shared a clip of Musk’s Nazi salute with the caption: “Ok, maybe woke really is dead.” Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor, who has aligned himself 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, writing on Instagram: “Ireland and its human trafficking business needs an absolute dismantling! It is a violation of our security and our sovereignty. For me it is A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.” (McGregor has recently said he is considering running for president in Ireland, which is a symbolic role without any real power.)

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