Jared Taylor Attended White Supremacist Conference in Portugal
When Maryland Republicans get in bed with a guy attending a conference full of people too toxic even by European far-right parties, there's a problem.
Jared Taylor, the Maryland Democrat who is treasurer for his wife’s campaign for Republican Central Committee, recently showed up at a fascist and white supremacist conference in Portugal.
European far-right activists who advocate the mass deportation of immigrants and their descendants are getting a boost from the Trump administration’s embrace of their key catchword: remigration.
Some 500 activists and influencers gathered south of Porto on Saturday to discuss the concept, once a fringe term only whispered in far-right circles. The United States’ former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino and American white nationalist Jared Taylor were VIP guests at the tightly controlled event, which also included elected officials from Spain’s Vox and Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) parties.
Other leading European far-right parties, most prominently France’s National Rally, have avoided the term or rejected the policy as too extreme because it targets migrants based on their ethnicity or religion. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of the word and the American State Department’s pledge to create an office for remigration put wind in the sails of longtime advocates of the policy in Europe.
Taylor’s attendance was a highlight for many of the Conference attendees:
Attendees also queued to take selfies with Taylor, the U.S. white nationalist who is a high-profile promoter of racialist ideology. “The United States influences Europe more than the other way around,” Taylor said outside the venue. “But among dissidents and identitarians, at least, there is a great deal of interest in Europe.”
"Remigration" is a policy idea popularized by the European far-right and adopted by MAGA, that argues immigrants and naturalized citizens of non-European descent should be compelled to leave and return to their countries of origin. Basically, it’s the promotion of ethnic cleansing without saying ethnic cleansing, being specific enough that its advocates know exactly what they're talking about. It originated in German-language far-right circles (the term is "Remigration" in German) and received mainstream attention in January 2024 when a secret meeting of German far-right figures, including members of the AfD, was exposed, revealing that they had discussed remigration as a concrete policy goal. The concept is not really about immigration policy, but about reversing the demographic changes of the last several decades by force of state power, not dissimilar to the policies of Nazi Germany. That is the part the more "respectable" advocates would prefer you not say out loud.
Why the concept of remigration would appeal to an unrepentant white supremacist like Taylor is obvious.
Jared Taylor has received a lot of attention in Maryland. His wife, Kate, is running for the Frederick County Republican Central Committee. Jared Taylor is serving as campaign treasurer, using his government name, Samuel Jared Taylor.
Jared Taylor was also, infamously, hosted by white nationalist former College Republican Chairman and House of Delegates Candidate Colin McEvers in April, an event that cost the College Republicans nearly $3,500 in security fees to host.
Both McEvers and Kate Taylor have denied being white nationalists themselves and have questioned whether or not Jared Taylor himself is a white nationalist. Jared Taylor’s work, however, continues to speak for itself. As does his attendance at this conference.
The “Remigration Summit 2026,” so called, was held May 30 at the Salmanha Residence hotel just south of Porto, Portugal, and its organizers were not subtle.
“Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions,” argues Afonso Gonçalves, chief organizer of the event. He’s the founder of the far-right group Reconquista, so named for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. That’s who Bovino was photographed standing next to after he landed in Europe.
Martin Sellner, an extremist from Austria, is best known for pushing the “great replacement” conspiracy theory — that Jewish elites are seeking to exterminate the white race via mass migration — that has motivated mass shooters from Pennsylvania to New Zealand. He was the other man standing next to Bovino.
Other speakers included a Belgian fascist convicted of Holocaust denial and the founder of a Swiss neo-Nazi group called “Junge Tat” who is quite open about his fondness for “National Socialism.”
When Maryland Republicans get in bed with a guy attending a conference full of people like this, people who were thought at one point to be too toxic even by European far-right parties, there’s something rotten. That few Republicans in any position of leadership have said anything about it speaks volumes in itself, though not nearly as much as it says about Nicolee Ambrose going to the mat to defend McEvers from a censure resolution for hosting Taylor.
Jared Taylor is who we think he is. And so are the people who refuse to break with him. When people tell you who they are, believe them. Jared Taylor is telling you exactly who he is. But so are Kate Taylor, Colin McEvers, and anybody else who has not distanced themselves from this motley crew of the lamest, goofiest representation of white people the world over.
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