American Far Right Jubilant Over European Far Right's Electoral Success
The “European right-wing comes of age,” triumphantly declared one of the largest white nationalist groups in the United States, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), after an announcement of the results of the 2014 European elections.
Like the Council of Conservative Citizens, many on the American far right, from the Tea Party to hardened white nationalists, paid close attention to the European results.Looking at these votes for nationalist, anti-immigrant, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-European Union political parties—the American hard right saw hope for the future here at home.
During IREHR’s analysis of far-right leaders in the United States, several different themes emerged at the top of their concern. These may animate far-right organizing efforts over the next year: 1) nationalist, anti-globalist arguments in the age of austerity and financial turmoil, 2) anti-immigrant politics as a winning message, and 3) the necessity of a white electoral strategy here at home. But not everyone agrees that electioneering is the white nationalist path to victory here or abroad.
Beyond the anti-EU / anti-globalism and anti-immigration rhetoric, other American far right leaders also saw a distinctly racial and cultural element to the vote. Commentator and former presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, long a supporter of the European far right, perhaps best articulated this theme. In a May 23 column, Buchanan contended that the electoral success by the far right meant that Europeans were voting to preserve their “separate and unique ethnic and cultural identity.” Buchanan further held that the results heralded a return to “traditionalism and cultural conservatism, reverence for the religious and cultural history and heritage of the nation and its indigenous people.”
http://www.irehr.org/race-racism-and-white-nationalism/item/560-american-far-right-jubilant-over-european-election-results
Racism, ethnic and cultural purity, traditionalism, cultural conservatism - all sounds like a conservative dream world of homogenous nations without diversity.
