A White Supremacist’s Passage to Modi’s India

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This report examines transnational far-right alliances which are exacerbating existing challenges to democracy by creating a networked infrastructure that amplifies extremist ideologies, creates replicable authoritarian playbooks, and normalizes democratic erosion and hateful rhetoric. The report focuses on celebrity MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer who, despite issuing slurs and rants against India and Indians on social media, has masterfully recast herself as an advocate for “Hindu people” against the “brutalities of Islam.”  Prominent right-wing personalities like Loomer with proximity to power increasingly provide new connections of parallel diplomacy—geopolitical pathways that are seldom studied or discussed by think-tanks and foreign policy pundits.