Trump’s anti-Muslim campaign served as a global symbol for white supremacists abroad.

Evidence

Trump’s anti-Muslim campaign resonated with white men in Australia, on the literal opposite side of the world. The Trump effect on white men who blamed their woes on nonwhites was global. Regular white men, like those Abdullah spoke to on a daily basis, and Brenton Tarrant, looked up to Trump as a “renewed symbol of white identity.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 930

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to reader’s goal of showing Islamophobia as a coordinated global condition with transnational learning. — connects to: The 2016 Trump era mainstreamed conspiracy-peddling anti-immigrant and white-supremacist groups — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 30