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.”

XREF: Connects to the global reach of populist white-nationalist movements and how one country's political rhetoric reverberates transnationally, echoing literature on the internationalization of identity politics.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 930