In Trump's Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream

[Danmel]

President Trump has embraced an array of far-right views and talking points in ways that have delighted many right-wing activists who have long supported those ideas.
During President Trump’s first turn in the White House, right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys were on the streets, weekend after weekend, raising their voices — and oftentimes their fists — about issues such as immigration, the squelching of conservative speech and the removal of Confederate-era statues.

But in the first seven months of Mr. Trump’s second term, there has been a conspicuous absence of far-right demonstrations. And that, some leaders of the movement say, is because the president has effectively adopted their agenda.

“Things we were doing and talking about in 2017 that were taboo, they’re no longer taboo — they’re mainstream now,” said Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, who took part in many of those early far-right rallies. “Honestly, what do we have to complain about these days?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html

[underpants]

1. Nazis with Miller really running the show. Two more thematic snips

This article doesn’t mention Stephen Miller (that I saw) but it did include two instances of it not being the persons fault for posting Nazi crap but the fault of those who report it.

But instead of letting the man (young DOGE employee posting “Normalize Indian hate.”) go, Mr. Musk and Vice President JD Vance began a campaign to bring him back, breezily suggesting that his offensive remarks were merely indiscretions disclosed to the public by journalists who were out to destroy his life.

In a statement, Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said that Ms. Wilson “has been doing a fantastic job” and that “left-wing groups have erroneously attacked” her character because she is “a fighter for President Trump.”


That (from an ICE recruiting poster on line) appeared to be a reference to the 1978 book “Which Way, Western Man?” written by the white supremacist William Gayley Simpson and published by the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization. The book claims that there is a Jewish plot against white people in the Western world and calls for violence against Jews.

Asked by reporters about the post last week, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for D.H.S., called the question “embarrassing” and said, “Where are we quoting a white supremacist?”