Donald Trump Welcomes Afrikaner Refugees

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

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.

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 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 fever 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.