Trump on South Africa: "It is a genocide that is taking place that you people don't want to write about." pic.twitter.com/RhdtCVVfTI
— captive dreamer (@siegfriedmuell) May 12, 2025
?BREAKING: First group of South African refugees fleeing persecution has arrived in the United States.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 12, 2025
All holding American flags.
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Today @DeputySecState welcomed the first group of Afrikaner refugees fleeing persecution from their native South Africa. We stand with these refugees, many of them farmers and former business owners, as they build a better future for themselves and their children here in the… pic.twitter.com/W16RJSU3tB
— Department of State (@StateDept) May 12, 2025
The great replacement is real. If you had any doubt, this story about the South African refugees should clear it up for you. The Left wants unchecked third world migration because they want to make America less white. That's it. It's that simple. That's why they oppose the white…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 12, 2025
Just so you understand how far we have come, this was how bad things were only five years ago. pic.twitter.com/B9zIj3dYAr
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) May 13, 2025
You can just do things pic.twitter.com/6rQjSMXKo3
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) May 13, 2025
The U.S. will give about 50 white South Africans help with housing, groceries, and other needs.
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 12, 2025
Story: https://t.co/jKx8dbb8tf pic.twitter.com/LkUX8wqzaL
BREAKING: MSNBC says Trump's asylee South Africans are "white supremacy" descendants and compares them to the "old Confederacy."
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) May 12, 2025
Guest Richard Stengel insists "there's no injustice" to South African Whites.
"The Afrikaners have become the darling of these right-wing white… pic.twitter.com/x8virdne2r
? NBC News: "South Africa says that the allegations about persecution of these people — The allegations are false, according to the South Africans." pic.twitter.com/OqGQ53zOpD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 12, 2025
I have been around for a long time.
I’m old enough to remember the mainstreamers vs. vanguardists debate which was sparked by Leonard Zeskind, author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, who quietly died last month at the age of 75. The book came out in 2009 when Obama was president and Glenn Beck was seen as an edgy radical in the Tea Party.
BBC:
“A group of 59 white South Africans has arrived in the US, where they are to be granted refugee status.
President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country’s Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of “racial discrimination”. …”
Zeskind has been on my mind lately.
He saw growing mainstream acceptance of White Nationalism. I couldn’t see it at the time. I wasn’t old enough to remember what it was like in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Contrast the two big news stories of the day. On the one hand, you have President Trump condemning White genocide in South Africa and the State Department throwing out the welcome mat for Afrikaner refugees while otherwise shutting down the refugee program. On the other hand, you have fringe activists prostrating themselves before their black fuhrer Yedolf because he “named the Jew.”
For several decades, White Nationalists were in the political wilderness and there was a spirited debate about these two approaches, but those days are now over. There is no longer any question that White Nationalists are capable of influencing mainstream politics, winning over a large swath of White America and pushing previously radical ideas into public policy. This was a pipe dream a few years ago. It was an issue that only we talked about with people like Simon Roche at conferences and podcasts.
The mainstreamers are no longer frozen out of rightwing politics. That door has abruptly swung open in Trump’s second term as the Boomers cycle out of politics. The old barriers to entry have severely eroded and collapsed in the Trump era. Sure, the vanguardists are still clowning themselves and the movement over and over again, but the difference is that they have lost their strongest argument.
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