Kluth: Race is the elephant in the room of US foreign policy

"White genocide' Carl is a right-wing firebrand who played a minor role in the first Trump administration and has more recently gained, depending on your vantage, kudos or notoriety for his theory that Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, as his book's subtitle puts it. He believes, for example, that a White genocide is underway and endorses the Great Replacement Theory (according to which elites in America and Europe are intentionally encouraging immigration to replace indigenous whites)."

"Muted yet deafening are the many dog whistles suggesting that American foreign policy under President Donald Trump is at least in part based on race, and specifically on white Christian nationalism. Nobody in the administration has said so baldly. In fact, all involved reject the idea with well-rehearsed indignation."

"Carl's confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the other day turned into what one senator called a heartbreaking spectacle. One by one, the Democrats confronted Carl with his own quotes and views. Carl squirmed away from some of his earlier remarks minimizing the Holocaust but stood by his views on anti-white persecution and the Great Replacement."

The Trump administration's foreign policy shows signs of being influenced by white Christian nationalism, though officials deny this explicitly. Jeremy Carl's nomination as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations exemplifies this pattern. Carl is a right-wing figure who promotes the Great Replacement Theory and white genocide conspiracy theories, claiming anti-white racism is tearing America apart. During his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, Democrats confronted Carl with his own statements, including those minimizing the Holocaust. Carl defended his views on anti-white persecution and the Great Replacement while struggling to articulate what constitutes white identity, vaguely referencing worship, food, and music without substantive explanation.

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