What to Expect From the Far Right in 2025
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, how will the far right movement respond Trump's return to power and what should we expect from the various groups within the far right in 2025?
Donald Trump has returned to the White House, and has promised to implement a draconian vision of right-wing authoritarian government. While the right-wing pseudopopulist MAGA movement views Trump’s return to the White House as a triumph, the far right movement is not a monolith and prominent figures have expressed various responses to Trump’s return to the White House.
How will the far right respond to Trump’s second term? The answer to that question is highly dependent on Trump’s actions. Whether or not Trump is successful in implementing the far right’s preferred hardline policies, or if there are significant impediments to implementing those policies through executive action — this will determine how the various factions of the far right respond to Trump 2.0.
First and foremost, the far right will continue to weaponize fear. Through the perceived proximity to political power, the far right will seek to use the power of the government to instill fear in their perceived political opponents. The far right will also seek to inspire fear in their supporters from the existential threat posed by the “other” — specifically marginalized communities such as the LBGTIQ community and the immigrant community.
Far right extremist groups, including White Supremacists, will continue to organize and recruit online, and use right-wing media to further mainstream extremist ideology. As prominent social media companies have responded to Trump’s return to power by rolling back restrictions on targeted hate speech, social media will become the prime vector for the spread of far right propaganda.
In state legislatures, far right groups, including anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ activists, will hold significant amount of influence. Republican state lawmakers will introduce numerous bills that seek to achieve the policy goals of far right activists, including the criminalize medical professionals that provide abortion care or physicians that provide gender affirming care. Far right extremists groups may also be more visible at state capitols, and there may be an increase number of staged protests and other actions during state legislative sessions.
During the past year, far right extremist groups have been less visible in public, and there have been fewer involvement in far right extremist groups during public protests. However, Trump’s election and return to the White House is almost certain to embolden far right extremist groups, and it is highly likely that far right extremist groups will be much more visible in public.
In the years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, far right extremist groups have evolved during the past few years, and eschewed national organizational structures for networks of local organized semiautonomous groups.
The Proud Boys exemplify this evolution in organizational structure, and have been actively engaged in growing local groups through recruitment. Also, Proud Boys and other far right extremists groups have become relatively accepted within Republican Party politics, and these groups have often sought alliance with ideologically aligned right-wing groups such as Moms for Liberty.
The White Nationalist movement has welcomed Trump’s reelection with trepidation, as various White Nationalist figures have come to view Trump as an imperfect vessel for achieving their political and policy goals. More than anything, the White Nationalist movement has been critical of Trump’s support of the government of Israel, and the number of Jewish conservatives that have prominent roles in Trump’s inner circle of advisors.
The the various far right militia groups that are part of the larger Patriot movement, including the far right vigilante border militias, will likely be highly active in the coming years. However, similar to the White Nationalist movement, various figures in far right militia groups and the vigilante border militias view Trump’s reelection with apprehension.
During Trump’s first term, these groups viewed immigrant and border policies as insufficiently hardline, and during Trump’s second term, these groups will only be satisfied if mass deportations of immigrants and the militarization of the border actually comes to fruition. If Trump does not visible use federal law enforcement to engage in highly public actions including the detention and deportation of thousands of immigrants, these groups may seek to take extreme measures including vigilante violence against immigrants.
The fucking fascist floodgate has been lifted. That’s a lot of sewage. Lots of shit to shovel. Maybe we can make them eat their words.
Self defense is not violence. Read that again. Those far right groups have been groomed by the CIA/Mossad. The techniques the US empire has used to destroy countries around the world is being turned on us.