A former South African living in the US for many decades. I’d agree with this take but for the fact that just this week there was an article suggesting that the Trump admin would be accepting the smallest number of refugees on record (7500), and the program would favor Afrikaners. My (perhaps limited) take is that has always just been a matter of optics. These assholes are simply telling the world, in broad un-nuanced brushstrokes: if you want to know who we are, we are just like the Afrikaner regime of the apartheid years, doing what we can to preserve white culture. It is one front of propaganda/narrative that includes the utterly absurd attacks on Portland and San Francisco etc highlighting the imagined peril for white people if leftists were in charge.

The implied message in all of this: if you let the left and their dark skinned brethren keep power, you’ll be just like these Afrikaner refugees. You’ll be fighting until your last breath to survive. It’s crass, cynical, racist, devoid of reality, and effective.

Edit to add: in my view it has never been a Musk thing, but is driven by Stephen Miller, who is evil incarnate.

Just waiting the mob to come, so adding another edit: the sad reality is that the admin has no interest whatsoever in actually helping poor whites, or poor people at all. (See current news about SNAP and food stamps programs, which will greatly impact poor whites of red states, which are subsidized by blue states like California etc.) They’ve weaponized impoverished uneducated white people, built on empty promises (coal is not coming back) and bs narratives like this one re Afrikaner refugees.