While many white nationalists believe they have allies in the White House, early indications are that the general direction of white nationalist mainstreamers will be to attempt to push the Trump administration and its base in a more fascist direction – much as the white nationalist “Groyper” movement during the first Trump administration.
Make American Renaissance Again
One of those allies inside the White House is Stephen Miller, a senior advisor in the first Trump administration, who is expected to serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy in the second term. Miller is the architect of Trump’s militarized mass deportation plans.
Previously, Miller drew national attention for having promoted white nationalist and racist material, including the white nationalist VDARE and crassly racist fiction book Camp of the Saints. Alongside praising the racist Immigration Act of 1924, Miller suggested to a Breitbart reporter that she utilize information from white nationalist Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance.[1]
American Renaissance [8,166 Telegram subscribers, 1,056 Twitter (X) followers] hosted the first major white nationalist gathering in the post-election period – an annual event held at Montgomery Bell State Park near Nashville, Tennessee, on November 19-20. (We will be examining this conference in the coming weeks.)
In the lead-up to the event, longtime American Renaissance writers Kevin DeAnna, aka Gregory Hood, and Paul Kersey dedicated an episode of Hood’s View From The Right broadcast to a likely central issue at the conference – an assessment of the future of “white identity politics,” aka white nationalism, under the coming Trump regime.
Kersey kicked off the show white nationalist-style, declaring,
“We’ve said all along this year, we, the American People, white America, deserves a country of their ancestors for our posterity, and I think that on November 5th, remember, remember the 5th of November, Mr. Hood, I think something very, very big happened. And I think it’s only getting more obvious how big that victory really is, with Mr. Trump’s first few appointments.”[2]
Hood lauded,
“What are Donald Trump’s first two actions in regard to personnel in the White House? Tom Homan is going to be the border czar, who has said, you know, ‘What do you say to the idea of breaking apart families with deportation?’ he said ‘Hey, we can…deport families together.’ He is now the border czar and Steve Miller is the Chief of Staff. Exactly what I, literally the two things that I wanted.”[3]
Kersey corrected that Miller has actually been announced as a Deputy Chief of Staff, claiming that the Trump advisor is now “more powerful than ever,” having established a base of support independent from Trump through such projects as this litigious America First Legal. Gleefully stating that the racist “great replacement theory” was a core theme of the Trump campaign, Kersey asserted it was now “clearly a time for mainstreaming as opposed to taking an independent position, and saying, you know, white homeland now, and forever. That would have been a very easy thing to say if Trump had lost.”[4]
This claim comes from Kersey’s view that “President Trump, in many ways, and this is one of the things, sort of a sneak preview of what I’m going to say at AmRen [American Renaissance], he’s moved the ball forward on white identity politics in a lot of ways,” even as Trump moderated his positions on abortion and social security.
In the context of such mainstreaming opportunities, Kersey argues that white nationalists do need to re-frame their politics in a more publicly palatable manner. Arguing that the term “white nationalism” is “political poison” and “would be the wrong frame,” he applauds the increasing attention given to opposing “explicit anti-white discrimination,” concluding that,
“It’s time for white identity politics to be a real-world political movement, but it’s going to take a bit of subtlety, it’s going to take a bit tact, and its [sic] going to be very different than the kinds of things that we are expressing online.”
Per usual, the event will feature American Renaissance regulars Sam Dickson and Kevin DeAnna. Dickson, who has “addressed every American Renaissance conference,” is a close ally of the deeply antisemitic, white nationalist and secessionist League of the South. A one-time fixture at events held by the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review, Dickson once admitted that the German Nazis persecuted Jews but stated that “to the extent to which six million of them were killed, is something I do not know.”
The event will also host academic racists, long a feature of a group that aims to shroud its racism behind a veneer of “science.” This includes Penn Carey Law Professor Amy Wax, fresh off receiving a one-year suspension from the University of Pennsylvania for “a history of making sweeping and derogatory generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status; breaching the requirement that student grades be kept private by publicly speaking about the grades of law students by race and continuing to do so even after cautioned by the dean that it was a violation of University policy; and, on numerous occasions in and out of the classroom and in public, making discriminatory and disparaging statements targeting specific racial, ethnic, and other groups with which many students identify.”[5]
Another announced speaker, former professor and dean at Tulane University, Richard Marksbury, will discuss “Why the Big Deal About Ethno-Nationalism?”[6]
The American Renaissance event will also feature the group’s international connections, long a feature of organized white nationalism, announcing appearances by Austrian Identitarian leader Martin Sellner and Guido Taietti of the Italian neo-fascist group CasaPound. Radio personality Anthony Cumia of the “Opie and Anthony Show” and a “mystery guest” are also slated to appear – the latter hinted at by the phrase “Everything is Fake and Gay,” indicating that it could be Nick Fuentes.
Friendly Opposition
A look across the white nationalist movement echoes themes in the American Renaissance assessment – that while the Trump administration may open opportunities, particularly in the realm of the potential mass deportation of immigrants and opening up political space for white nationalism, the aged MAGA leader will need to be pushed to advance the cause.
As during the rise of the “Groypers,” white nationalist and neo-fascist mainstreamer Nick Fuentes [65,292 Telegram subscribers, 444,721 Twitter (X) followers] is staking out a position critical of the Trump administration – but in the love-hate (or at least dislike) relationship Fuentes’ has long exhibited toward Trump.
In the wake of Trump’s victory, Nick Fuentes went viral by tweeting a message declaring, “Your body, my choice. Forever.” – a mocking attack on women and reproductive rights and assertion of the far-right Catholicism that accompanies his brand of fascism. In a rejoinder to the national attention garnered by this display of misogyny, Fuentes mocked women in crass misogynist terms and declared that women supporting the upbeat temperament of Kamala Harris’ campaign, alongside advocating abortion rights, is “one among many reasons that women should not have the right to vote.”[7]
On the one hand, Fuentes dubbed Trump and Elon Musk’s victory “a blessing for this country” because “everything that you see was built by men, invented by men…Yes men should be running the country. God bless Trump for winning and for starting this whole movement…They talk about women’s rights, I’m sorry, what rights are you talking about, what rights do women not have…I don’t apologize for what I said.”[8]
Boasting that he “did not vote at all this time” and “did not support Trump this time,” Fuentes praised Trump, Musk, and Joe Rogan for pushing back against women, though he noted, “these guys are imperfect, I have my criticisms of them, but…They represent the white man coming home, and good.”
Fuentes, who had dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, criticized the snake-oily reality TV personality for, among other things, backing down when his first administration’s vicious family separation policies drew controversy and, more recently, when the orange-tinged racist publicly distanced himself from both the draconian Project 2025 [despite a slew of connection to the project’ authors] and a national abortion ban in the face of criticism.
Fuentes continued that Trump is an “aging president” who is “not energetic…not a good operator…and doesn’t have a vision.” And, he predicted that if Trump “tries to do anything extreme,” his funders will push back against him, Fuentes arguing that they are not “for mass deportations,” but instead working to get the Department of Defense contracts for Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
“Are there some exciting opportunities,” he continued. “I think so. I think certainly there are. But this is not going to be a successful administration running on auto pilot. There’s no guaranteed victory here. If anything, the odds are that it’s going to be a generic Republican presidency, and it’s going to lead to even worse things when the heir-apparent takes over in four years…We have to be thinking in the long term.”[9]
Fuentes attacked several announced Trump appointments. He referred to expected Trump DoD transition team member Brian Hook as a “lunatic neocon.” He called expected appointments as Elise Stefanik (UN Ambassador), Marco Rubio (Secretary of State), and Kristi Noem (Homeland Security) as “absolutely horrible picks. Each worse than the last.”[10]
White Nationalist Parties Respond
In a November 6 press release, the white nationalist American Freedom Party [2,491 Telegram subscribers] signaled its aims to press the Trump Administration in a more white-ist and antisemitic direction. “With Trump appearing to have secured the presidency,” AFP Executive Director John Fassbinder [602 Telegram subscribers] wrote, “we must recognize a sobering truth: no matter which of the two candidates won, America has lost.” The AFP mini-fuehrer continued,
“Trump is not the solution to our challenges, and his win does not signify salvation for Our Nation or Our People…These figures will never prioritize the future we envision so long as they place the interests of foreign lands such as Israel first…[T]he Dissident Right must focus forward…The path to Victory lies in only one resolute course of action: the full rejection of the Zionist Occupation.”[11]
The group is continuing its alliance with the Patriot Front [26,606 Telegram subscribers], announcing that the group’s Texas-based leader, Thomas Rousseau, will be a featured speaker at the AFP’s March 2025 conference.[12]
In a May 2023 interview with the South Dakota-based Amerikaner, AFP’s Fassbinder made clear that one basis of the group’s alliance is that they are both fascist:
“Patriot Front frames themselves as the same thing that they are, and it’s what we are, which is ultimately, a sort of American fascist political party organization, you know, we do use the fasces and the torch for a reason.”
Other announced speakers include antisemite and AFP Director Kevin MacDonald, League of the South leader Michael Hill, and announced American Renaissance speaker Sam Dickson.[13]
While the AFP has made moves to step up its ground game since the rise of former Identity Evropa activist John Fassbinder to the helm, it will likely continue to lag behind even a weakened Patriot Front on that front. We can expect such groups to target immigrants in propaganda as the Trump administration moves to roll out its planned deportations.
The national socialist National Justice Party [7,562 Telegram subscribers], still hobbling from recent in-fighting, is also signaling an opposition position vis-à-vis Trump. Assessing the place of racism in the election of Donald Trump, NJP leader Warren Balogh [3,156 Telegram subscribers] wrote on Telegram that,
“Even though I’m against Trump, I’m actually one of his most enthusiastic students. Lessons I’ve learned from him…The masses of White Americans are ready for National Socialism. Trump offered them a watered down, bastardized form of Jewish pseudo-NS, and they grasped for it like a drowning man. The fact that they haven’t expressed this up to now is not because they don’t want it, but because they haven’t been presented with the choice.”[14]
Balogh lists his other “lessons” from Trump include using “oratory and mass meetings,” [an NJP weakness], using “simple, direct language” because the “great masses of Whites (sic) are not intellectuals,” being “brash” and “rude” to “ruthlessly push your own agenda and shove competition out of the way,” and using leverage to achieve your goals (e.g., by not voting for Trump automatically). Balogh continued that,
“You win not by following the rules, but by breaking the rules. Catering to conservatives, chasing after the approval of the establishment, trying to present as fake and polished, worrying about what people will say and think, gets you nowhere fast. Our people want authenticity, guts and passion. Respecting the conventions of American politics means we lose every time.”[15]
At white nationalist Identity Dixie, in the lead-up to the election, “Kaiser” offered that “Trump and Kamala are both horrid, disgraceful options,” declaring he would not vote in the presidential race because “I am not sure that a Trump presidency will be less damaging than a Kamala one.”[16]
“Kaiser” walked through his possible scenarios in the event of a Trump victory, writing, “There is not a scenario where Trump is suddenly a rogue dissident warrior. Because that is not going to happen. Listen to his speeches. He’s the same man as before, whether anyone wants to admit that or not. At best, we get a repeat of half-alright 2016 Trump. At worst, we get limp-wristed 2020 Trump.” [17]
In his first scenario, “Trump wins, and nothing happens (we get a repeat of half-okay 2016 Trump) [italics in original].” He laments that “this option still is not great for a dissident. If this repeat happens, the 2020 fraud gets completely swept under the rug…Trump 2016 did nothing to stem the tide of our pathway to annihilation; Trump 2024 won’t be any different.”[18]
In scenario 2: “Trump wins, and nothing happens (we get a repeat of complete-failure 2020 Trump) [italics in original].” In “This option,” Kaiser writes,
“[I]nstead of being the old 2016 Trump, we get the 2020 Trump. You know, the Trump that brought us Operation Warp Speed, the COVID lockdowns, started the massive inflation with free money checks, created the greatest peacetime disaster of all time, and the guy that was hiding in the White House as the blacks destroyed everything…Arguably, the only two good things Trump could do is 1) reduce the border crossings, and 2) help our guys out that are getting reamed in the criminal justice system. This 2020 Trump would deny to resolve either of them. Just like he did nothing to help in 2020, when he had the power to do so. Some people assume Trump can stop the inflation wave (“save muh economy!”) but people forget he is the one that started it with the stimulus payments.”[19]
Following the election and Trump’s victory, Identity Dixie’s Kaiser offered that the election was a “short-term win,’ but that white nationalists must think “long-term.”
“If we go into these next four years knowing that Trump is not going to save us,” he writes, “but is going to give us the time to build and potentially slow down the demographic change, then we are going in with a long-term winning mindset.” Kaiser fears that “everyone will become complacent once again,” and “So we risk everyone falling asleep like what happened in 2016 once again.” Stressing that “more than ever, we need to be activated, he concludes that,
“A Trump win very well could be a gift from God to give us these extra few days during the downfall of the American empire. To give us enough time to get ready…Granted, I do realize all of this relies on if Cataclysm X does not happen. But hey, if that happens, we won’t have the time anyway no matter who won…The election of Trump solves nothing by itself.”[20]
For Kaiser, Cataclysm X refers to a “catalyst for the major disaster that we all feel is coming—something leading to geopolitical strife like a Middle East War, World War, a major financial crash, etc.).”[21] He explains, “I think they are planning something big. Some type of major worldwide destabilization. Why? Well, to acquire more hegemony, and secondarily to reduce the population. Also, simply because they are being led by Satan and he wants to destroy.”[22]
These dynamics will continue to play out as the Trump Administration rolls out its announced draconian policies. IREHR will have more to say in the coming months about the white nationalist movement, including both mainstreamers and the vanguardist wing.
NOTES
[1] Michael Edison Hayden. Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails. Southern Poverty Law Center. November 12, 2019. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails#link[2] Gregory Hood. View From the Right. The Return of the King. American Renaissance. November 12, 2024. https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2024/11/the-return-of-the-king/
[3] Gregory Hood. View From the Right. The Return of the King. American Renaissance. November 12, 2024. https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2024/11/the-return-of-the-king/
[4] Gregory Hood. View From the Right. The Return of the King. American Renaissance. November 12, 2024. https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2024/11/the-return-of-the-king/
[5] University of Pennsylvania. Final Determination of Complaint Against Professor Amy Wax. University of Pennsylvania Almanac. Vol 71, Issue 7. September 24, 2024. https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/final-determination-of-complaint-against-professor-amy-wax; Emily Change and Abby Cruz. Penn imposes major sanctions against controversial law professor Amy Wax, including a 1-year suspension. ABC News. September 24, 2024. https://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-imposes-major-sanctions-controversial-law-professor-amy/story?id=113955753
[6] Tulane professor tied to pro-Confederate groups. The Tulane Hullabaloo. April 29, 2021. https://tulanehullabaloo.com/56703/news/tulane-professor-tied-to-pro-confederate-groups/; Tulane University. SoPA’s History. https://sopa.tulane.edu/about-sopa/why-sopa/history. Accessed November 12, 2024; American Renaissance. 2024 American Renaissance Conference. https://www.amren.com/2024-american-renaissance-conference/. Accessed November 18, 2024.
[7] Nicholas J. Fuentes. Your Body, My Choice. Rumble. November 8, 2024. https://rumble.com/v5na9cq-your-body-my-choice.html
[8] Nicholas J. Fuentes. Your Body, My Choice. Rumble. November 8, 2024. https://rumble.com/v5na9cq-your-body-my-choice.html
[9] Nicholas J. Fuentes. Your Body, My Choice. Rumble. November 8, 2024. https://rumble.com/v5na9cq-your-body-my-choice.html
[10] Nicholas J. Fuentes. Telegram. November 10, 2024. https://t.me/nickjfuentes/13752; Nicholas J. Fuentes. Telegram. November 12, 2024. https://t.me/nickjfuentes/13756
[11] American Freedom Party. Telegram. November 6, 2024. https://t.me/AmericanFreedomParty
[12] American Freedom Party. Telegram. November 12, 2024. https://t.me/AmericanFreedomParty/822
[13] American Freedom Party. Telegram. November 12, 2024. https://t.me/AmericanFreedomParty/822
[14] Warren Balogh NJP. Telegram. November 5, 2025. https://t.me/ahab88/16992
[15] Warren Balogh NJP. Telegram. November 5, 2025. https://t.me/ahab88/16992
[16] Kaiser. The 2024 Election: Final Thoughts And Six Scenarios. November 1, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/the-2024-election-final-thoughts-and-six-scenarios/
[17] Kaiser. The 2024 Election: Final Thoughts And Six Scenarios. November 1, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/the-2024-election-final-thoughts-and-six-scenarios/
[18] Kaiser. The 2024 Election: Final Thoughts And Six Scenarios. November 1, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/the-2024-election-final-thoughts-and-six-scenarios/
[19] Kaiser. The 2024 Election: Final Thoughts And Six Scenarios. November 1, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/the-2024-election-final-thoughts-and-six-scenarios/
[20] Kaiser. Identity Dixie. The 2024 Election Results: First Thoughts. November 8, 2024. https://identitydixie.com/2024/11/08/the-2024-election-results-first-thoughts/
[21] Kaiser. Cataclysm X. Identity Dixie. October 9, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/cataclysm-x/
[22] Kaiser. Cataclysm X. Identity Dixie. October 9, 2024. https://www.hiddendominion.com/cataclysm-x/. In Kaiser’s conspiracism-addled mind, ‘The action could include, he writes, a “cyber attack from Russia. Maybe it is a false flag attack from Iran. Or maybe it is a disease being unleashed. Heck, it could be major assassinations… A disease that allows for actual harsh lockdowns. A world war that allows for silencing all opposition internally. Even a market crash that demands us all surrender to the state to get food.”
