Meet Jeremy Carl, U.S. Ambassador for White Supremacy

Have you had a look at the pantload Trump has nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations? His name is Jeremy Carl, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a parking garage for right-wing fools and outright racists who are between jobs in the federal government. Carl is a Holocaust denier and author of The Un-Protected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart. That would be pretty much all you need to know about this asshole. He’s one of those screaming racists the MAGA right has dressed up in a suit on given a haircut and put forth to represent what they figure is racism cleaned up enough for government work. He’s frequently referred to as a white nationalist, as if exchanging “supremacist” for “nationalist” is going to make him more palatable.

Carl wouldn’t even be worth mentioning in polite company if the job to which they want him confirmed hadn’t become an unexpectedly hot potato after this year’s Munich Security Conference, a Cold War relic that was begun in 1963, when the USSR was threatening Europe on a daily basis with so-called “theater nuclear weapons” that could wipe out the entirety of Europe in about a nanosecond. Every year, a whole bunch of the world’s national security professionals get together in Munich to discuss how best to protect the West from everybody East of Poland and the Baltics, which for those without an atlas handy, would be Russia and China.

The Munich Security Conference became a thing in 2022 when Russia attacked Ukraine, giving the national security professionals something real to talk about for the first time in quite a while. Everybody in Europe and Canada and the U.S. pulled together to support Ukraine, and things stayed pretty stable until Trump took office in 2025 and sent Vice President Bible Thumper to Munich to scold everyone and tell them a new sheriff was in town, and he wanted five percent of European nations’ GDP contributed to NATO, and by the way, all you guys we’ve been best friends with since 1941 have gotten the whole democracy thing all wrong. We didn’t mean it when we said we were opposing totalitarianism and wanted to “tear down that wall” after all. What we really meant was, you’ve got to stop letting in all those brown and black and Muslim people and clean up the whole “free speech” thing we used to talk about. What we mean now is, Europe is for white people and free speech is for the following people…kind of like Viktor Orban is doing in Hungary. And oh, by the way, Trump’s buddy Vlad isn’t such a bad guy, because he’s been attacked and vilified and discriminated against just like Trump.

That didn’t go over very well in Europe. So, this year, Trump sent “Little Marco” Rubio, his house Velvet Glove to Munich to make nice. The problem Little Marco had was that Trump’s White House had recently released its National Security Strategy which said pretty much nothing bad about Vlad and Russia and lots of bad shit about Europe, which was accused of having become “unrecognizable” because of the “civilizational erasure” of its immigration policies. That would be, in case you don’t have a copy of Mein Kampf handy, European nations are letting too many people who are not white and Christian through their borders.

The right wing in this country has a convenient shorthand for this attitude called “the great replacement theory,” which holds that there is some kind of conspiracy by someone to “replace” white people with Black and Brown and Other people, which they fear would make the United States “unrecognizable” by about 2040, or so the demographic estimates say.

So, the solution to all of these “civilizational” problems is to appoint a screaming Holocaust denying, great replacement theorizing, White People defending lunatic to the position in the State Department that is charged with seeing to international organizations and meetings like the Munich Security Conference. Jeremy Carl had some problems last week at his Senate hearing, however. Asked by Senator Chris Murphy what he meant when he referred to the “erasure of white culture,” in his book and his writings for the Claremont Institute, Carl stammered out a string of blather. What is different about “white culture,” Murphy wanted to know. Carl explained that the “white church is very different from the black church in terms of its tone and style on average.” Uh-oh. What could be next? “Food ways could be different,” Carl explained.

You could almost see Senator Murphy wondering if he was going to “go there” and mention the Super Bowl show that had riled up the Right so badly only a few days before. Carl did not disappoint: “Music could be different. You look at the Super Bowl halftime show that was not in English.”

A look of astonishment on his face, Murphy asked, “So our ability to access white churches, or white food, or white music is being erased?” Suddenly, it was as if Carl had been waiting for a pitch he could hit out of the park: “I’m concerned with the majority common American culture, that we had for some time, that particularly through mass immigration, has become balkanized, and again, I’m not running away from my comment, and I’m not apologizing for it.”

Apparently not satisfied that he had made himself clear to Senator Murphy, Carl took to Xitter after his testimony to explain himself: “The ‘White culture’ that I was referring to was simply the culture of the overwhelming majority of Americans who lived here prior to the passing of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, which radically transformed American demographics. It incorporated everything from the sports we played (football, baseball etc.) to the foods we ate (Hamburgers, pizza etc.) to the music we listened to and the TV shows we watched.”

Yeah, that’s the problem all right. You just can’t find a good burger or pizza or Perry Como song or “Leave It to Beaver” show on TV anymore, can you?

This guy is the person Trump wants to represent the United States on world stages such as the DAVOS and Munich Security conferences. We won’t even get into the idiocy of his mention of pizza that was here before the evil Hart-Cellar Act came along and substituted Thai food or something even weirder. And of course we won’t get into the fondly-recalled Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924, the precursor to the evil Hart-Cellar that was designed to specifically limit immigration from Southern Europe, like say, Italy, with all those pizzas that would come in and “replace” burgers.

In fact, this is one of those places where I just want to give up trying to make sense of these fools. Rubio babbled on in his speech at the Munich Security Conference about our “shared” culture by mentioning the Rolling Stones, as if citing a British rock and roll group whose first two albums were devoted entirely to covers of Black blues, and whose music remains rooted in what we might call “Black culture” rather than “White culture” made any more sense than Jeremy Carl and his babble.

What are these people thinking? Nothing, is all I can figure. I guess what they’re doing is reacting in a quite natural way to their own instincts, which are racist to the core. This is the government that is now running things in Washington D.C. and is in charge of our national defense and what remains of our standing in the world. It’s the government that just murdered two American citizens while trying to rid this country of people who they believe do not represent “White culture.” It’s the government that wants to appoint a Holocaust denier racist loon to a high position in the Department of State.

It’s the government of Donald Trump.