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232      “I would like to thank everyone in the Netherlands . . .”  Geert Wilders quoted in Alexander Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place’: Geert Wilders Claims Victory for PVV,” VRT NWS, November 22, 2023, www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak/, via Google Translate.

232      “Thirty-five seats is a huge compliment, but also . . .  Wilders quoted in Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place’: Geert Wilders Claims Victory for PVV,” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak/.

232      “PVV wants to work from a wonderful position. . .”  Wilders quoted in Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place’: Geert Wilders Claims Victory for PVV,” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak/.

232      “That we will have to come up with solutions . . .”  Wilders quoted in Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place’: Geert Wilders Claims Victory for PVV,” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak/.

232      “January 20, 2017, will be remembered . . .” ABC News, “Trump Inauguration Speech (FULL) | ABC News,” YouTube, January 20, 2017,youtu.be/sRBsJNdK1t0?si=8ZdU8BDSym_Ga7m8, 4:22–4:33.

232      “This American carnage stops right here . . .” ABC News, “Trump Inauguration Speech (FULL) | ABC News,”youtu.be/sRBsJNdK1t0?si=8ZdU8BDSym_Ga7m8, 6:18–6:25, 8:57–9:04.

232–233 “American Carnage” speech, as it came to be known David A. Graham, “The Gilded Age of Trump Begins Now,” The Atlantic, January 20, 2025, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/gilded-age-trump-inaugural/681383/.

233      born in London in 1830  John M. Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed February 24, 2025, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133.

233      studied at Oxford . . .a history professor, but grew disillusioned . . . Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894),” adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133.

233      set off for Australia, failed at . . . returned to lecture at Cambridge  Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894),” adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133.

233      lost his parents and went back . . . in 1871, to combine . . .  Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894)," adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133; John Tregenza, Professor of Democracy: The Life of Charles Henry Pearson, 1830–1894, Oxford Don and Australian Radical (London: Melbourne University Press, 1968), 45, 54–56; and Charles Henry Pearson, Charles Henry Pearson: Fellow of Oriel and Education Minister in Victoria: Memorials (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900), www.google.com/books/edition/CHARLES_HENRY_PEARSON_FELLOW_OF_ORIEL_AN/pyQJtSMDE7YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA4-PA141&printsec=frontcover,  141. Find Tregenza’s Professor of Democracy at a library near you at search.worldcat.org/title/19012.

233      After . . . in 1892, Pearson finished his book  Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894),” adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133; and Tregenza, Professor of Democracy, 3, 225. Find the Professor of Democracy library book at search.worldcat.org/title/19012.

233      “counter-colonialism”, Renaud Camus, Le Grand Remplacement (Paris: Reinharc, 2011), trans. Grace Ashton (unpublished translation), 54, 71. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/es/title/Le-grand-remplacement/oclc/767578742.

233      “The day will come . . .” Charles H. Pearson, National Life and Character: A Forecast (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893), archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/page/84/mode/2up, 84.

233      “shall wake to find ourselves . . .”  Pearson, National Life and Character, archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/page/84/mode/2up, 85.

233      Declining birth rates and socialism have . . . “stationary”  Pearson, National Life and Character,archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/mode/2up, 129–130, 261.

233      “black and yellow races” . . . higher birth rates and rapid population increases  Pearson, National Life and Character, archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/mode/2up, 84–85, 130.

233      “the lower races will predominate in the world” Pearson, National Life and Character, archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/page/344/mode/2up, 344.

233      “the higher races will lose . . .”  Pearson, National Life and Character, archive.org/details/nationallifechar00peariala/page/344/mode/2up, 344.

233–234 Roosevelt sent his regards  Benjamin Mountford, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), 213; and Pankaj Mishra, “Opinion: The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult,” New York Times, August 30, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/race-politics-whiteness.html. Find the Britain, China, and Colonial Australia library book at search.worldcat.org/title/957615607.

234      pushed the book on people  Mountford, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia, 213. To find Britain, China, and Colonial Australia at a library near you, visit search.worldcat.org/title/957615607.

234      where Pearson died in 1894  Tregenza, “Charles Henry Pearson (1830–1894),” adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearson-charles-henry-4382/text7133.

234      “White Australia policy” to restrict . . . especially Asian immigrants  “White Australia Policy,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 10, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy.

234      when the six British colonies . . . united in 1901 Parliamentary Education Office, “The Federation of Australia,” accessed September 10, 2025, peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/history-of-parliament/federation/the-federation-of-australia.

234      One of . . . first laws . . . the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901  “White Australia Policy,” www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy.

234      formulated by . . . mentee of Pearson’s and . . . second prime minister  Marilyn Lake, “From Mississippi via Natal: The Invention of the Literacy Test as a Technology of Racial Exclusion,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, eds. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2005), 222; “Alfred Deakin,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 10, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/prime-ministers/alfred-deakin; and “White Australia Policy,” www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy. Find the Connected Worlds library book at search.worldcat.org/title/156709283.

234      touted by . . . first prime minister  “Edmund Barton,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 10, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/prime-ministers/edmund-barton.

234      quoted from . . . in parliament  See Edmund Barton’s remarks from August 7, 1901, in Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Session 1901–2, First Session of the First Parliament, vol. 3 (Victoria, Australia: Robert S. Brain, 1902), books.google.com/books?id=6zsEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2791#v=onepage&q&f=false, 3503.

234      a member of . . . “Australian Natives’ Association” “Australian Natives’ Association,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 10, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/australian-natives-association.

234      did not fully outlaw . . . until the 1970s “White Australia Policy,” www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy; and “Ending the White Australia Policy,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 10, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/end-of-white-australia-policy.