Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births, No to Immigrants and LGBTQ Families
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat,
Lucid
| 05. 02. 2025
Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni from the
Office of the Vice President of the United States
$5000 bonuses for mothers after delivery. Medals for prolific mothers (more than 6 kids). Up to one-third Fulbright scholarships reserved for people who are married or who have children. These pro-natalist measures the Donald Trump administration is considering are part of a larger attempt to use government to re-engineer the American population. Detaining and ejecting immigrants, disparaging “childless” women, privileging motherhood as central to female identity, and incentivizing White Christian births to “natural families” –unions of one man and one woman –are part of this plan.
Great Replacement Theory, or the idea that White Christians are being outperformed demographically by non-Whites, threatening the survival of the race and “civilization,” was central to Fascist ideologies and practices and it is central to anti-immigrant and other racist platforms of far-right parties and governments today.
MAGA is the American hub of this transnational racist project, and the proposals of the Trump administration also reflect the obsession with increasing White Christian birthrates among many prominent...
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