When the Radical Right Loved India

In the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections, the American right was consumed by a conflict over the “Indian question.” The flashpoint came in September, when Bo French, a Republican candidate in Texas, lamented a picture showing South Asian fans at a college football game. This open display of anti-Indian sentiment drew condemnation from mainstream Republicans, but echoed the views of many on the far right, such as the white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes. Other leading figures on the online “dissident” right endorsed French’s stance, presenting Indian identity as incompatible with a foundationally and essentially white America. The irony of all this is that the European rightist thinking upon which today’s American far right draws has more often been Indophilic. A reminder of this legacy came in an earlier phase of the evolution of the far right. Shortly after Donald Trump first won the presidency in 2016, Richard B.

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