Trump has authorized a vicious deportation scheme that includes plenty of people who, for various reasons, are victims of American foreign policy. There is one glaring exception to the new regime–disgruntled Afrikaners are welcome here. What’s going on?
Racism is probably part of it. Elon Musk’s ties to white South Africans may also provide some of the explanation. But I think the principal reason is that Trump and the base identify both themselves and the Afrikaners as supporters of traditional values and civilization against an overwhelming tide of barbarism. Whether this view bears any relationship to reality, either here or in South Africa, I leave to your imagination.