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In Trump’s Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 23, 2025 | Alan Feuer

Posted on 08/23/2025 12:56:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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?” Whether it is dismantling diversity programs, complaining about anti-white bias in museums or simply promoting an aura of authoritarian nationalism, Mr. 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.

His administration has also hired several people with a history of making racist or antisemitic remarks or who have looked favorably on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Far-right figures have been particularly thrilled by Mr. Trump’s aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants, praising not only the ubiquitous images of masked federal agents raiding farms and factories, but also the ideology that has fueled those moves: a belief that migration to the United States is all but synonymous with a military invasion.

Last week, in fact, on the eighth anniversary of the violent far-right...

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1 posted on 08/23/2025 12:56:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then I guess it’s not far right.


2 posted on 08/23/2025 12:58:24 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Far right = normal.


3 posted on 08/23/2025 12:59:27 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, the Non-Obama-Far-Left Agenda Enters the Mainstream


4 posted on 08/23/2025 1:00:00 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

In this day and age, yes.


5 posted on 08/23/2025 1:01:44 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, if far-right (common sense) is now mainstream, that means it’s not “far right” anymore - it’s center, and the other side is now sick, loony, crazy leftists!

About time common sense made a comeback!


6 posted on 08/23/2025 1:05:48 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...a belief that migration to the United States is all but synonymous with a military invasion.”


No, the belief is a that illegal migration to the United States is all but synonymous with a military invasion. That one word makes all the difference.


7 posted on 08/23/2025 1:09:12 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: HYPOCRACY

And Common Sense….


8 posted on 08/23/2025 1:09:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So many buzzwords that say so little…


9 posted on 08/23/2025 1:10:24 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mainstream agenda re enters the mainstream. As evidenced by the landslide victory both electoral and popular of this president

And that’s before dismantling the cheating and the ownership by the cheating leftists

.Watch what happens at mid terms


10 posted on 08/23/2025 1:13:12 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s play Lugenpresse Bingo

Far Right!
Authoritarian!
Nationalism!
Proud Boys!
Racist!
Antisemitic!
Jan 6!

And that’s just the first part of the article LOL.


11 posted on 08/23/2025 1:13:49 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: No name given

“ In this day and age, yes.”

No. That’s the media lying to you


12 posted on 08/23/2025 1:14:03 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: pburiak

The forgot “Hitler!”


13 posted on 08/23/2025 1:14:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not far right ... Normality ...


14 posted on 08/23/2025 1:14:54 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no far right agenda. There is an American agenda and an Anti-American agenda.


15 posted on 08/23/2025 1:17:07 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Probably in next paragraph.

Those hacks don’t have an original thought in their pointy heads.


16 posted on 08/23/2025 1:17:22 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More BS from the NY Times. If FDR was alive today, the Times would label him Right Wing.


17 posted on 08/23/2025 1:17:34 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, no, no, it’s not the far right. We’re in middle in the road with Trump.. it’s not vengeance or vendetta, it’s justice.

And if the pollyanna’s peddling that actually believe it, they’ll believe anything.

The American hating Communist are going to get their world severely rocked. Stayed tuned.


18 posted on 08/23/2025 1:17:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In Trump’s Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream

In Trump’s Second Term, We Return To Following The Law of Nature and Nature's God, As Codified In The United States Declaration Of Independence and The Constitution Of The United States of America

There, fixed it.

19 posted on 08/23/2025 1:19:17 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmmm, has the New York Times ever used the “far left” moniker, referring to some Democrat pol? I’m guessing no...


20 posted on 08/23/2025 1:19:27 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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