Chapter 94: Modern KKK

354     “What gets lost . . .”  Conn Carroll, “Text: Sen. Rand Paul’s speech at Howard University,” Washington Examiner, April 10, 2013, www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/1858052/text-sen-rand-pauls-speech-at-howard-university/.

354     “look at the Dixiecrats . . .” Senator Ted Cruz, “Sen. Cruz on Fox News’ America Newsroom—Feb. 8, 2017,” YouTube, February 8, 2017, youtu.be/aU8o35GuR8w?si=QIe-_JpTfv4dowuS, 5:31–5:42.

354     compared . . . to the KKK During an interview with conservative commentator David Harris Jr., Greene said of the Black Lives Movement, “It’s basically the same tactics that the Ku Klux Klan used to use. They used to go and take to the streets with torches and their uniforms and go out there like some sort of army. They would threaten courts. They would threaten people in their towns if they didn’t behave the way they wanted them to behave.” David Harris Jr., “Special Guest Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene Joins Me to Talk About Chauvin Verdict & More!” Periscope, April 21, 2021, www.pscp.tv/w/1YqxoyglLwMGv, 6:11–6:32.

354     “. . . The Democrat Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan” Harris Jr., “Special Guest Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene Joins Me to Talk About Chauvin Verdict & More!” www.pscp.tv/w/1YqxoyglLwMGv, 6:32–6:37.

354     “modern grand wizards of the modern KKK”  Alex Tabet and Katherine Koretski, “Vivek Ramaswamy calls Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Author Ibram Kendi Part of ‘Modern KKK,’” NBC News, August 25, 2023, video, www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-calls-rep-ayanna-pressley-author-ibram-kendi-part-mode-rcna101873, 0:29–1:20. The “modern grand wizards of the modern KKK” line begins at 1:19.

354     a backdrop that read “TRUTH”  Thomas Beaumont, “Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy greets people at a campaign stop in Pella, Iowa, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023,” 2023, photograph, Associated Press Photo, dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/2454d73/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4009x2673+0+0/resize/1440x960!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fba%2F8c%2F7e3b4c519671fc83333776c52bcf%2Fb18b25e9b4d4487bb227fb793e961bce.

354–355     “April 25, 1945, clearly marks . . .”  “President Meloni’s Letter to the Corriere della Sera Newspaper on Liberation Day,” Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italian Government, April 25, 2023, www.governo.it/it/node/22468.

355     “The whole white race may be submerged . . .” “Mussolini Warns on Birth Rate Drop,” New York Times, September 27, 1928, nyti.ms/4hVQPLO, 1, 9.

355     “While, for instance, the whites . . .” “Mussolini Warns on Birth Rate Drop,” nyti.ms/4hVQPLO, 9.

355     “China has 400,000,000 inhabitants” “Mussolini Warns on Birth Rate Drop,” nyti.ms/4hVQPLO, 9.

355     “alarm” . . . “sounding and all who can see . . .” “Mussolini Warns on Birth Rate Drop,” nyti.ms/4hVQPLO, 9.

355      a series . . . including barring interracial marriage and extramarital sex  Christopher Shinn, “Inside the Italian Empire: Colonial Africa, Race Wars, and the ‘Southern Question,’” in Shades of Whiteness, ed. Ewan Kirkland (Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016), 42; and Michael A. Livingston, The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws, 1938–1943 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 67-68. View search.worldcat.org/title/1239981177 (Shades of Whiteness) and search.worldcat.org/title/823860721(The Fascists and the Jews of Italy) to find these books at a library.

355     positioned Jews and Africans as the great replacers of Italy’s “Aryan race”  Aaron Gillette, “The Origins of the ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 6, no. 3 (2001), www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 306, 312–313.

355     Drafted . . . heavily edited by Mussolini  Gillette, “The Origins of the ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 306, 307–308, 313.

355     positively reviewed by handpicked  Gillette, “The Origins of the ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 313.

355     first appeared . . . on July 14, 1938  Gillette, “The Origins of the ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 305.

355     “The concept of race is purely biological” Italics in the original. “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” 1938, in Gillette, “The Origins of the ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 318.

355     “the Jews do not belong to the Italian race” Italics in the original. “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 319.

355     “The population of Italy today. . .” Italics in the original. “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 319.

356     “If the extreme leftists manage . . .” Branko Grims quoted in Álvaro Peñas, “‘Without Christian Roots Europe Cannot Exist’: An Interview with Branko Grims,” European Conservative, August 23, 2023, europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/without-christian-roots-europe-cannot-exist-an-interview-with-branko-grims/.

356     “The racial composition of today . . .”  Italics in the original.    “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 319.

356     “The population stock of France . . .” Renaud Camus, You Will Not Replace Us!, (Plieux, France: Renaud Camus, 2018), 22–23. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

356     “The purely European character of the Italians . . .”  “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 320.

356     “We are willing to mix with one another . . .” “Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp,” Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, July 23, 2022, 2015-2022.miniszterelnok.hu/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-31st-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/.

356     “Islamic civilisation”  “Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp,” 2015-2022.miniszterelnok.hu/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-31st-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/.

356     “constantly moving towards Europe”  “Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp,” 2015-2022.miniszterelnok.hu/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-31st-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/.

356     “occupying and flooding the West”  “Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp,” 2015-2022.miniszterelnok.hu/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-31st-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/.

356     “It is time for the Italians to proclaim . . .”  Formatting in the original. “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 319.

356     “the doctrine of people who . . .”  Camus, You Will Not Replace Us!, 83–84. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

356     secretly recorded . . . the youth division of Brothers of Italy Angelo Amante, “Rome’s Jews Outraged After Videos Show Antisemitism in Meloni’s Youth Movement,” Reuters, June 27, 2024, www.reuters.com/world/europe/romes-jews-outraged-after-videos-show-antisemitism-melonis-youth-movement-2024-06-27/.

356–357     identified as fascists. They berated . . . with antisemitic comments  Amante, “Rome’s Jews Outraged After Videos Show Antisemitism in Meloni’s Youth Movement,” www.reuters.com/world/europe/romes-jews-outraged-after-videos-show-antisemitism-melonis-youth-movement-2024-06-27/.

356–357     yelled the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil!”  Amante, “Rome’s Jews Outraged After Videos Show Antisemitism in Meloni’s Youth Movement,” www.reuters.com/world/europe/romes-jews-outraged-after-videos-show-antisemitism-melonis-youth-movement-2024-06-27/.

357     “angry and saddened” Giorgia Meloni, letter to Brothers of Italy, July 2, 2024, quoted in Crispian Balmer, “Italy’s Meloni Tells Her Party There Is No Rom for Fascism in Its Ranks,” Reuters, July 2, 2024, www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-tells-her-party-there-is-no-room-fascism-its-ranks-2024-07-02/.

357     “no room in Brothers of Italy for racism or antisemitism”  Meloni, letter to Brothers of Italy, www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-tells-her-party-there-is-no-room-fascism-its-ranks-2024-07-02/.

357     “extra-European race” . . . “a civilization different from . . .”  “Appendix: ‘Manifesto of Racial Scientists,’” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545710110084253, 320.

357     “uncontrolled immigration”  Giorgia Meloni, Twitter, February 3, 2017, 9:59 a.m., x.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/827531927653646337, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/rUmvl.

357     “ethnic substitution”  Mediatime Network, "Giorgia Meloni Against Ethnic Substitution," youtu.be/4EzNi5PGbRA?si=V5pgowh_wJW3sWQ1, 1:15–1:18; and Vista Agenzia Televisiva Nazionale, “Ethnic Substitution, What Giorgia Meloni Said 6 Years Ago," April 24, 2023, youtu.be/EgVdu6ZYgWY?si=Xzgueb2O8DjmzpJg, 0:12–0:15.