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Trumpworld’s Global War on Multiracial Democracy

White House officials and Elon Musk are now openly promoting blood-and-soil politics across Europe.

Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth depart Union Station after meeting with federal law enforcement officers on August 20, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The Trump administration’s embrace of overt white nationalism and its effort to lead a Western-world counterrevolution against the era of mass immigration is accelerating. Things are being said aloud that even a year ago would have been career suicide. The Trump administration’s messaging is now so extreme, so reliant on the Great Replacement language of the most far-right edge of Europe’s neofascist movements that it must be music to the ears of the fanatical fascist Norwegian Anders Breivik, sitting in his prison cell for slaughtering more than 70 mainly immigrant children in 2011. On a daily basis, top administration officials are essentially parroting Breivik’s manifesto.

Last week, I wrote about the Aliens.gov website and its effort to dehumanize the millions of immigrants who have made the United States their home in the 61 years since Congress liberalized immigration policy. This week, administration officials plus Elon Musk have been attempting to outdo even that fascist claptrap. In a series of extraordinary interventions in European politics, they have allied the administration squarely with the continent’s most xenophobic mob elements.

The transatlantic fusillade of racial venom began after a horrendous police intervention in the United Kingdom and the trial that followed.

Last December, a Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa stabbed Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white man in the town of Southampton. When the police arrived, Digwa falsely claimed he had been defending himself from a racist attack. The police, operating to an inflexibly rigid set of protocols regarding how to respond to a suspected racial attack, promptly handcuffed the mortally wounded Nowak, who died, still handcuffed, lying on the sidewalk and gasping that he couldn’t breathe.

By any measure, Nowak’s death was a tragedy, and by any measure, the police response was appalling. But in this era of growing white nationalism, it triggered a backlash against what Musk is labeling “two-tier policing,” by which he means a set of protocols that allegedly treat white suspects more harshly than non-white suspects. It is, of course, nonsense—the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency has documented continent-wide patterns of discriminatory, often violent, policing against ethnic minorities. But after Nowak’s killing, a slew of British and US fascists and far-right party leaders have latched onto it to further their culture wars. In the UK Parliament, Trump’s ally the Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, repeatedly claimed that two-tier policing was in play.

On June 1, a judge sentenced Digwa to life in prison for the murder and slammed the police response to Nowak’s stabbing. In the wake of this, with attention once more focused on allegedly discriminatory policing against whites and as English nationalists rioted in Southampton, the Trump administration took its bigotry one extraordinary step further, repeatedly linking Nowak’s death to Europe’s migration policies. On X, Vice President JD Vance wrote, “Henry Nowak died the........

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