The global far right celebrates Trump’s new world order

In the first 48 hours of President Donald Trump’s second termhas taken action on nearly 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 environmentand DEI policies.

Trump has too pardoned or commuted the sentence of every person who participated in the violent uprising in the Capitol in 2021. Meanwhile, his close ally Elon Musk has revived an even more extreme wing of Trump’s supporters, from doing a Nazi salute on stage – twice – in front of thousands of people in DC and millions watching on TV.

Trump’s actions have generated a lot of excitement among the far right in the United States. They have also been hailed as a plan by an adoring 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 more than a political success,” wrote Martin Sellner, far-right activist and head of the Austrian Identity Movement, on his Telegram channel. “It is a metapolitical victory: the end of the awakening and the trans ideology, stopping illegal immigration and many other ideas have been normalized in society.”

“These extremists think that this is the way to go, that their countries need to take a lesson from what Trump is proposing, and they don’t need to be weak about it, and don’t let the woke activists get in their own way, because everyone knows that the right thing to do is to get rid of immigrants,” Wendy Via, CEO of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, tells WIRED.

Sellner, what a time communicated with the Christchurch massacre shooterhe is best known for popularizing the white nationalist concept of “remigration,” the idea of ​​ethnically cleansing Western nations of all non-white citizens. This extremist ideology has gained traction among other far-right groups in Europe, including Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Freedom Party of Austria. Trump too promoted “remigration” in September.

Now, Sellner believes Trump’s return to the Oval Office signals a moment to take his agenda mainstream.

“Taking more into the realm of the ‘unspeakable’ we’re going off the defensive and actually moving 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 side.”

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

In France, the Generation Identity group, the youth wing of the far-right identitarian movement, wrote on Telegram: “Remigration in full evolution. Identitarianism has won ideologically, it only takes time for this victory to reflect in the material world.

In Ireland, Keith Woods, the far-right influencer is ally of American white supremacist Nick Fuentesshared a clip of Musk’s Nazi salute with the caption: “Ok maybe the wake is really 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 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson . McGregor praised Trump’s immigration policies, and wrote on Instagram: “Ireland and its human trafficking racket needs an absolute dismantling! It is a violation of our security and our sovereignty. For me IT’S A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. (McGregor recently said he plans to run for president in Ireland, which is a symbolic role without any real power.)