Chapter 55: Winds of Change

222      “Thirty-five!”  Geert Wilders, X, November 22, 2023, 3:07 p.m., x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1727418576498532820, 0:03–0:06.

222      predict . . . win 35 out of the 150 seats Bart H. Meijer and Anthony Deutsch, “Dutch Election: Wilders’ Far-Right Party Set for Gains,” Reuters, November 22, 2023, www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-vote-tight-race-pick-new-prime-minister-2023-11-22.

222      ends up winning 37 seats  International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Election Guide, “Dutch Second Chamber 2023 General,” November 22, 2023, last updated December 1, 2023, accessed February 14, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4182.

222      can join with other parties to reach 76 seats and select the prime minister  Paul Kirby and Anna Holligan, “Dutch Election: Anti-Islam Populist Geert Wilders Wins Dramatic Victory,” BBC News, November 23, 2023, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67504272.

222      with a selfie . . . posts the selfie on X Geert Wilders, X, November 22, 2023, 5:11 p.m., x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1727449645268275293, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/LG6LM.

222      “The winds of change are here! Congratulations . . .”  Orbán Viktor, X, November 22, 2023, 3:52 p.m., x.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1727429763734864213, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture,archive.ph/ge1af; and Viktor Orbán quoted in “Praise and Fear After Dutch Populist Wilders’ Election Win,” Reuters, November 23, 2023, www.reuters.com/world/europe/praise-fear-after-dutch-populist-wilders-election-win-2023-11-22.

222–223 “Congratulations to Geert Wilders and the PVV . . .”  Marine Le Pen, X, November 22, 2023, 4:03 p.m., x.com/MLP_officiel/status/1727432652578292224, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/r2s1i.

223      “Congratulations on this great success . . .”  Alice Weidel, X, November 22, 2023, 4:16 p.m., x.com/Alice_Weidel/status/1727436027261001835, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/DvJ8V; and Alice Weidel quoted in Helen Sullivan, “European Far-Right Leaders Celebrate Geert Wilders’ Party Leading Dutch Election Exit Polls,” The Guardian, November 23, 2023, www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/european-far-right-leaders-celebrate-geert-wilders-leading-exit-polls-dutch-elections.   

223      “I would like to congratulate Geert Wilders . . .”  Tom Van Grieken quoted in “Praise and Fear After Dutch Populist Wilders’ Election Win,” www.reuters.com/world/europe/praise-fear-after-dutch-populist-wilders-election-win-2023-11-22.

223      “More and more Europeans demand . . .”  Santiago Abascal, X, November 22, 2023, 5:13 p.m., x.com/Santi_ABASCAL/status/1727450279086371000, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/z412u; and Santiago Abascal quoted in Sullivan, “European Far-Right Leaders Celebrate Geert Wilders’ Party Leading Dutch Election Exit Polls,”www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/european-far-right-leaders-celebrate-geert-wilders-leading-exit-polls-dutch-elections.

223      “There is systemic racism and classism . . .”  Rachel Campos-Duffy quoted in Tommy Christopher, “Fox News Host Says Biden Doing ‘Systemic Racism’ Against White People AND Siccing FBI on Companies in Wild Rant,” Mediaite, February 25, 2023, www.mediaite.com/opinion/fox-news-host-says-biden-doing-systemic-racism-against-white-people-and-siccing-fbi-on-companies-in-wild-rant.

223      “White supremacy”. . . “the most dangerous terrorist threat . . .”  Joseph R. Biden Jr., “Remarks by President Biden at the Howard University Class of 2023 Commencement Address,” The White House, May 13, 2023, bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/13/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-howard-university-class-of-2023-commencement-address/.

223      “America is not racist. America is the least . . .”  The Recount, Twitter, May 14, 2023, 9:23 a.m.,x.com/therecount/status/1657738507782090754, 1:02–1:06.

223      “America is the least racist country in the world”  Charlie Kirk, Twitter, May 29, 2020, 12:10 p.m., x.com/charliekirk11/status/1266401535174434816, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/Zfn6L.

223      “America is the least racist country to ever exist”  Charlie Kirk, Twitter, September 29, 2020, 9:58 p.m., x.com/charliekirk11/status/1311123330154393605, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/i3XjW.

223      “Our media is so frenzied . . . and nobody cares”  Charlie Kirk, X, September 26, 2023, 11:13 a.m., x.com/charliekirk11/status/1706688341268451662, archived at archive.today, July 6, 2024 capture, archive.ph/RlJPT.

223      “. . . prowling Blacks go around for fun . . .” The Charlie Kirk Show, May 19, 2023, in “Charlie Kirk Goes on Unhinged Racist Rant: ‘Prowling Blacks Go Around for Fun to Go Target White People That’s a Fact,’” Media Matters for America, video, May 19, 2023, www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-goes-unhinged-racist-rant-prowling-blacks-go-around-fun-go-target-white, 2:44–2:51.

224     Less than 1 percent of U.S. hate crimes . . . attributed to anti-White bias  According to the FBI, 4,852 hate crime incidents in the United States out of a total of 56,864 such incidents over the last five years–less than one percent–were attributed to anti-White bias. November 2020 to November 2025, “Hate Crime in the United States Incident Analysis,” FBI Crime Data Explorer, last updated November 15, 2025, accessed December 3, 2025, cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/hate-crime. See also Robin Glover, "What the Latest FBI Data Tells Us About Targeted Bias in the U.S.." Medium, September 26, 2025, medium.com/@robin_glover/what-the-latest-fbi-data-tells-us-about-targeted-bias-in-the-u-s-c56fc4340f04.

224     “The great replacement strategy, which is well under way . . .”   The Charlie Kirk Show, March 1, 2024, in “Charlie Kirk Pushes the ‘Great Replacement’ Conspiracy: ‘They Won’t Stop Until You and Your Children and Your Children’s Children Are Eliminated,’” Media Matters for America, video, March 1, 2024, www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-pushes-great-replacement-conspiracy-they-wont-stop-until-you-and-your, 3:09–3:19.

224     killing became international news  For examples, see “Trump Ally Charlie Kirk, 31, Shot Dead During Speech at Utah University,” Le Monde, September 10, 2025, www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/09/10/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-is-in-critical-condition-after-getting-shot-at-a-utah-college-event_6745251_4.html;   Wesley Rahn with AP and Reuters, “US: Conservative Pundit Charlie Kirk Shot Dead at Utah Rally,” Deutsche Wells (DW), September 10, 2025, www.dw.com/en/us-conservative-pundit-charlie-kirk-shot-dead-in-utah/a-73954370; Márton Losonczi, “Charlie Kirk Killed in Apparent Far-Left Extremist Attack,” Hungarian Conservative, September 10, 2025, www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/charlie-kirk-killed-utah-valley-university/; Cristóbal Palacios, “‘Ideas Are Not Fought with Bullets’ and ‘The Left Has Claimed Another Victim’: Kast and Kaiser’s Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s Death,” La Tercera, September 10, 2025, www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/las-ideas-no-se-enfrentan-con-balas-y-la-izquierda-se-ha-cobrado-otra-victima-las-reacciones-de-kast-y-kaiser-tras-muerte-de-charlie-kirk, via Google Translate; Tiffianie Turnbull, “Suspect in Custody and Named as Tyler Robinson—What We Know So Far,” BBC News, September 12, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy04p4x21e5o; “Death of Charlie Kirk Lays Bare Deep U.S. Political Divisions,” Japan Times, September 11, 2025, www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/world/politics/charlie-kirk-death-us-divisions/; Ben Knight, “Who Is Tyler Robinson, the Accused Killer of Charlie Kirk?” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 12, 2025, www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-13/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirks-alleged-killer/105769710.

224     from rural Utah has been charged  Julie Jag and Peggy Fletcher Stack, “‘It Was One of Us’—Gov. Spencer Cox and Fellow Utahns Come to Terms with a Suspected Assassin in Their Midst,” Salt Lake Tribune, September 13, 2025, last updated September 15, 2025, www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/13/utah-gov-cox-grapple-with/; and Knight, “Who is Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of Charlie Kirk?”, www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-13/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirks-alleged-killer/105769710.

224     identified as White Tiffanie Turnbull, "Suspect in custody and named as Tyler Robinson - what we know so far," BBC News, September 12, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy04p4x21e5o.

224     typical of murderers of White Americans According to the most recently available data from the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice (2019), 78.6% of White murder victims in the United States were killed by other White people. See FBI and U.S. Department of Justice "Expanded Homicide Data Table 6," Crime in the U.S. 2019, ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls.

224     “essential point and it’s clear that most Americans . . .”  “Transcript: Tucker: America Is at an Inflection Point,” Fox News, video, November 3, 2021, www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-america-is-at-an-inflection-point, 3:34–3:43.

224     interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse . . . acquitted of murder  Carlson first interviewed Rittenhouse on November 22, 2021, three days after a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. See Fox News, “Kyle Rittenhouse Speaks to Tucker Carlson in First TV Interview,” November 22, 2021, youtu.be/do7sbWaZstQ?si=c-z5ctCgYnq5LvNB; and Michael Tarm et al., “Jury Finds Rittenhouse Not Guilty in Kenosha Shootings,” Associated Press (AP) News, November 19, 2021, apnews.com/article/jury-finds-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-in-kenosha-shootings-27f812ba532d65c044617483c915e4de.

224     traveled from his Illinois hometown to Kenosha  Tarm et al., “Jury Finds Rittenhouse Not Guilty in Kenosha Shootings,” apnews.com/article/jury-finds-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-in-kenosha-shootings-27f812ba532d65c044617483c915e4de.

224     fan of Donald Trump aspired to be a police officer  Henry Redman, “Kenosha Alleged Shooter’s Social Media Shows Support for Trump, Blue Lives Matter,” Wisconsin Examiner, August 26, 2020, wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/kenosha-shooters-social-media-shows-support-for-trump-blue-lives-matter; and Alexis McAdams, “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Mother Says Son Shot 3 Kenosha Protestors in Self-Defense: ‘He’s Not a Monster,’” ABC7 Chicago, November 11, 2020, abc7chicago.com/kyle-rittenhouse-mother-kenosha-shooting-video/7875609/.

224     against the White police officer . . . shot and paralyzed. . . Jacob Blake  Casey Tolan, “A Black Man Shot in the Back, a Teenage Shooting Suspect, a City in Flames: The Week That Shook Kenosha and the Country,” CNN, September 4, 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/kenosha-protests-jacob-blake-rusten-sheskey-invs/index.html; and Todd Richmond and Michael Tarm, “No Charges against Wisconsin Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake,” Associated Press (AP) News, January 6, 2021, apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-pleads-not-guilty-cf6228f55a4f2a5fdd66978e5523a912.

224     Brandishing his AR-15 style rifle  Tolan, “A Black Man Shot in the Back, a Teenage Shooting Suspect, a City in Flames," www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/kenosha-protests-jacob-blake-rusten-sheskey-invs/index.html; and Neil Vigdor, “Rifle Used by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha Shootings Will Be Destroyed,” New York Times, January 28, 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/kyle-rittenhouse-ar15-gun.html.

224     shot and killed . . . two antiracist White demonstrators . . . disarm him Becky Sullivan, “Why the Kyle Rittenhouse ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict Is Not a Surprise to Legal Experts,” NPR, updated November 19, 2021, www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057422329/why-legal-experts-were-not-surprised-by-the-rittenhouse-jurys-decision-to-acquit.

224     “bright, decent, sincere, dutiful, and hardworking . . .”  Fox News, “Kyle Rittenhouse Speaks to Tucker Carlson in First TV Interview,” youtu.be/do7sbWaZstQ?si=c-z5ctCgYnq5LvNB, 2:04–2:12.

224     More than five million  David Bauder, “Five Million Viewers See Carlson’s Rittenhouse Chat,” AP News, November 23, 2021, apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-nfl-sports-entertainment-business-63294dca175d5c7381ad17bc7e11d43b.

224     the second-most-watched episode . . . in 2021  Bauder, “Five Million Viewers See Carlson’s Rittenhouse Chat,” apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-nfl-sports-entertainment-business-63294dca175d5c7381ad17bc7e11d43b.