As reported recently by Searchlight, America’s best known racist Jared Taylor now seems free to travel around Europe spreading his message of hate, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area for several years.
In particular, he was allowed into the UK to speak at last month’s conference of Mark Collett’s neo-nazi outfit, Patriotic Alternative.
This weekend the US State Department showed that it isn’t prepared to follow suit. They blocked Collett from travelling to speak at Taylor’s white supremacist conference American Renaissance, so he had to deliver his speech by video link.
Collett and his online fan club have responded by adding Trump to their antisemitic conspiracist worldview.
War with Trump
Sections of the far right (both within MAGA and internationally) are now at war with the White House but moving ever closer to the Kremlin, and many of them are hinting or openly stating that Trump was somehow compromised by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Lax official attitudes in the UK and Europe are especially odd because Taylor has become both more extreme in his racism and more shameless in his militant associations. He is especially close to a network of Putin supporters on the international far right.
Fellow speakers who did make it to Tennessee included Hugo Lennon, an Australian racist born with a silver spoon in his mouth who was known online as Auspill until he was outed in August this year.
Factions uniting
From a US perspective this year’s conference was most significant for uniting two factions of the American far right that have sometimes been opposed.
The openly fascist but supposedly anti-Putin ‘intellectual’ Greg Johnson was among the speakers yesterday. Johnson’s colleague Christopher Moore, a retired academic who uses the pseudonym F. Roger Devlin, is said also to be one of the speakers at the two-day conference.
Johnson is openly homosexual, while Moore / Devlin is one of the leading misogynists on the far right, best known for his book Sexual Utopia in Power and popular among the growing number of ‘incels’ in racist and fascist circles.
Personal enemies
It now looks as though the Homeland Institute founded in 2022 by Johnson and Moore is working closely with Taylor and American Renaissance, though for years Johnson and Taylor’s close friend Sam Dickson (another conference speaker) were personal enemies.
As at most of his events in recent years, Taylor’s righthand man at the conference was Kevin DeAnna (alias ‘James Kirkpatrick’) who was one of the first American dissident right activists to cross the line from establishment conservatism to the more blatant racist scene.
