Who Radicalized Heidi Beirich (SPLC)? Beirich’s origin story, family, early life, clues to her political origins and turn towards left-wing extremism

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“Sometimes Americans forget that this country
was founded on white supremacy.”
(Heidi Beirich, May 2017)

Heidi Beirich, long of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a US political commissar-like organization, was in the news recently (late Oct. 2019) as the latest high-ranking SPLC’er to be “purged” in what outsiders see as an ongoing, internal power struggle.

I present Heidi Beirich’s origin story: family, ancestry, and life trajectory, largely drawn from research original to this post and not previously available anywhere in anything like coherent form. (If you wish to use any of this information, please cite this post as the source.)

It turns out that Beirich spent the first twenty-five or so years of her life (through about 1992) in Southern California. Her childhood and adolescent years (early 1970s to early 1980s) were during the critical period when California was on in its early stages of being ‘lost’ (See: “Who Lost California?” [post]; see also Beirich’s own 2010s-era account of what White politics were like in 1980s California and follow-on comment from Alden [section of this post].)

In the course of this investigation, I also find some tantalizing clues on possible origins of Beirich’s politics, including Beirich’s own account of her left-wing radicalization, which I will post below. Following this are some thoughts of my own on what, in Beirich’s own recent ancestry, may have led her to turn towards left-wing extremism.

Towards the end of this post, I also present information on the political situation in Heidi Beirich’s mother’s hometown in Germany and the full voting results in her mother’s district in the 2017 national election.

The post ends with a question, “Will Heidi Beirich finally publish her book?” The working title of which has been long rumored to be: “Western Civilization: 3500 Years of Extremism.”

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Investigation into Heidi Beirich’s personal origins

Not much is available online on Beirich’s personal origins, a void I am hoping the substantial amount of material compiled in this post will fill.

The Center for Immigration Studies published a profile on her in 2018 (“Heidi Beirich: A Character Assassin Under the Banner of ‘Peace, Respect, and Understanding'”), but it contains little to no solid biographical material beyond where she earned her degrees. Nothing on her family origins, nor on her upbringing. Not much of any kind of biographical info. Beirich also has no wikipedia entry, despite her long career as a left-wing political commissar and her substantial influence on US politics.

I’ve compiled a substantial amount of biographical material on Beirich, drawn from a variety of public sources, which I think (hope) gives us a well-rounded picture of the woman and is instructional in more general terms.

I believe this post to constitute the most substantial, comprehensive biography of Beirich ever published. It includes much primary material, including her own rather negative views on the California she knew in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Heidi Beirich, Family Origin and Life Timeline

Family origins

– Heidi Beirich’s father Russell Beirich (1933–2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver; he graduated from Regis Jesuit High School, Denver, in 1951; two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, and emigrated to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell’s father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [note: Colby, Kansas, today constitutes seven-tenths of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81–13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, as often seen in Middle America in 2016, this was the best-ever R result for that county];

– Heidi’s mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) (born ca. 1939) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen (now merged into the Rumeln-Kaldenhausen district of Duisburg) may have historically been as high as 75–25 Protestant–Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany (Lutheran); Evelyn’s hometown was down to 55–45 Protestant–Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the ‘Ruhrpott’ that had occurred since. (See below for how Rumeln-Kaldenhausen voted in the Sept. 2017 German national election.)

Mid-20th-century postcard from Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, probably produced not long after Heidi Beirich’s mother left in or before 1961; Rumeln-Kaldenhausen is now on the western end of the city of Duisburg; the postcard shows two churches and a boat moored on Toeppersee (lake)

– 1961: Heidi’s parents marry, after having “met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army” (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or ’61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter for twenty years, before moving to San Diego;

– Heidi was born in July 1967 in Palm Springs, California (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi’s father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s until (apparently) moving south to San Diego about 1982;

– 1981-82 academic year: As a freshman at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the “ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies” (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come; the family moves to Vista, San Diego County, probably right after Heidi completed ninth grade in Palm Springs;

– June 1985: Graduates from Vista High School, San Diego, California;

– 1989: Graduates with BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;

– 1991: Graduates with MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;

– 1998: Graduates with PhD, Purdue University, Political Science; dissertation dealt with “white nationalism and neo-fascism;” in her 2017 ABC interview, the interviewer calls the degree a “PhD in Fascism;”

– 1999: Starts at the SPLC as an intern for the Intelligence Report, full control of which she inherited in Jan. 2012;

Heidi Beirich, circa 2000s

– 2000s and 2010s: Heidi is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to ‘deplatform’ political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; Heidi Beirich thus transitions into a kind of US political commissar, the kind of position the US government cannot directly set up but to which it can effectively outsource; in her ‘commissar’ capacity she begins to frequently appear quoted in the media attacking conservatives, immigration restrictionists, Christian patriots, all kinds of nationalists (if white), and other right-winger oppositionists, with defacto support from the state;

– 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);

– 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);

– Oct. 2019: Fired from SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.

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Heidi Beirich’s own account of her political radicalization in 1980s Southern California

In the biographical-timeline above, we see that Beirich was born and raised to age 15 in Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, and then spent politically formative years in northern San Diego County, from around 1982 to mid 1985. After that she was, at least when the semester was on, far north attending classes at Berkeley (fall 1985 to spring 1989 semesters, presumably).

In Beirich’s telling of her own political story, the years she spent in San Diego County, in a place called Vista, California — full-time from ca.1982 to mid-1985, and now and then thereafter — were critical to her political radicalization.

Two street scenes of present-day Vista, San Diego County, California:

By the 1990s, having left sunny Vista, California, behind, Beirich emerges as a left-wing crusader against White right-wing politics, against (what she might call) Christian fascism, and definitely against any sort of white racialist- or nationalist sympathies in any form.

Here is Beirich, in her own words, in an ABC News interview for a program called “Uncomfortable,” May 16, 2017. (The interviewer is Amna Nawaz, of Pakistani origin.)

I’ve transcribed the relevant portion of the interview (1:30–3:15):

Interviewer: I’m curious about you — How someone comes to work in ‘Hate.’ Tell me about you.

Heidi Beirich: Well, it was a bit of a round-about thing [laughs].

So I was in graduate school getting my PhD at Purdue University. I was studying Fascism in Europe. I was actually studying Spain, specifically. I knew about the Southern Poverty Law Center because when I was growing up, when I was in high school, at Vista High School in the Eighties, one of my friends was actually the son of the head of the White Aryan Resistance, at the time.

Interviewer: Really –!

Heidi Beirich: Yeah, the guy’s name is Tom Metzger. Not the son, but the father.

Interviewer: And where were you growing up?

Heidi Beirich: It’s northern San Diego County. Vista, California.

Tom Metzger was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center. His organization was sued, frankly, out of existence. Some of its members, skinheads, were involved in the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant in Portland. So when I was in high school, this lawsuit was going on [Heidi’s timeline on her political awakening is off; see note below –Hail], and I knew —

Interviewer: This was your friend’s father —

Heidi Beirich: My friend’s father, John Metzger, who went to a different high school but I would run into him on swim team and other situations.

Interviewer: Wow —

Heidi Beirich: So I was very, very cognizant of the SPLC from a young age. I also had friends, when I was at Vista High School, who got sucked into White Aryan Resistance’s skinhead movement. …So I…knew people who became racist skinheads connected with Metzger.

We see that Heidi Beirich, in front of a highly sympathetic interviewer, characterizes Tom Metzger’s group in the 1980s as the origin point for her move towards the Hard Left (or the “Ctrl-Left,” certainly a valid label in this case).

This is a useful datapoint, but the caveat should always be that autobiography is often self-serving. I don’t doubt that Metzger’s racialist-nationalist group was of some kind of importance to her then-forming political consciousness as a teenager (at which time, we learn she was — against stereotype — an athlete on the school swim team). But allow me a moment to analyze the claim, as after checking it I find at least one glaring problem:

Heidi’s timeline on her political awakening is off. She tells the interviewer, “[W]hen I was in high school, this lawsuit was going on,” referring to the SPLC’s lawsuit over the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant. She may be misremembering this, or is confusing it with something else, because the the murder of the Ethiopian immigrant happened in Nov. 1988, by which time Heidi (b.1967) was in her final academic year at Berkeley. The SPLC then filed the suit against Metzger in Nov. 1989 (the day before Thanksgiving, in fact) (a few weeks after the jubilations back in Heidi’s ancestal Fatherland over the opening of the Berlin Wall), and the trial opened in Oct. 1990, closing the same month.

Beirich graduated from high school in June 1985 and the events related to the SPLC lawsuit are in late 1989 and 1990, meaning her narrative (“when I was in high school, this lawsuit was going on”) is off by five years.

Beirich’s mixing up her own political-awakening timeline conveniently presents herself, in anecdote form, as a frightened teenager and thus sympathetic, and not as the early-mid 20s elite-college graduate she was. What to make of this? It was either a case of misremembering, or a deliberate attempt to ‘retcon’ the story to maker herself look more like the victim, with the hope that no one checks on the specifics. It’s possible both things are going on, and the latter not even consciously. Memory is not perfect. Heidi was back in her native Riverside, California, working towards an MA in Economics when the lawsuit was filed, so at least she was her geography was right. I’d therefore suggest an on-the-spot misremembering:retconning ratio of 70:30.

Beirich’s early-1990s decision to pursue the academic-activist life

The fact that Beirich decided, by about early 1989, to pursue an MA in Economics is worth highlighting and worth a further word.

We see from this choice (and to a lesser extent also in her choice of undergraduate major, Developmental Studies) that Beirich was, in her early 20s, conflicted on what she wanted to do: Should she follow in her accountant father’s footsteps, or should she go for the academic-activist life? The latter won out decisively for her by the early 1990s. Her “work-tivism” has been pretty similar from her PhD program to present. She did left-wing political science at Purdue, ca. 1992 to 1998, before being hired by the SPLC in 1999.

Heidi Beirich (SPLC US domestic-political commissar), Jason Johnson (Politics Editor for The Root) appear as guests on Ari Naftali Melber (right)’s MSNBC talk show The Beat, Aug. 5, 2019.

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Heidi Beirich on Southern California Politics in the 1980s

Back to Heidi Beirich’s own retrospective analysis on the political situation in the Southern California she knew in the 1970s/1980s, again in the 2017 ABC interview:

Heidi Beirich: There was very strong white nationalist and anti-government activism in the whole region [Southern California]. Orange County’s the next county to the north in California [above San Diego County]. That’s where the John Birch Society had a huge foothold in the Sixties and the Seventies.

So, the whole region — which is so different today, right [rolls eyes on the word ‘so’] — It’s multi-ethnic, right, it’s not the same!

Interviewer: Right.

Heidi Beirich: The whole region had some very extremist politics infecting it. In fact, [laughs], my high school history teacher was like somebody out of Dr. Strangelove. He was a rabid anti-communist. Didn’t think Reagan was radical enough. So there was a lot of this going on in the area.

I have tried, in the transcript above, to faithfully reproduce the stresses Beirich puts on words. She stresses the word ‘Reagan,’ which in context suggests she believes Reagan was a “radical.” This is puzzling but just shows Beirich’s commitment to left-wing partisanism. On Ronald Reagan’s legacy in California as two-term governor, see the section on Reagan in the Hail To You post “Who Lost California?“:

The point here is to say that whatever Reagan was doing in California in the late 1960s and 1970s, he was already aiming for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, three thousand miles to the east. We know he had presidential aspirations as early as 1967. As a presidential aspirant he must have believed/realized that he could not be seen to be any kind of hardliner, despite his conservative credentials. If one is looking for why Reagan didn’t do more in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had such a strong hand to play in California and could have accomplished nearly anything in the state, this really is it.

A commenter named Alden says this on Beirich’s characterization of Southern California as a right-wing, racialist hotbed:

She’s lying. By 1980 Orange and San Diego county were turning left for various reasons. Conservatism [was] on its way out by the time she was in high school.

And since 1958 every high school history book in California public high schools was full of McCarthy was a Nazi persecutor of liberals and anti free speech, the Hollywood Ten Martyrs, Roosevelt was a combination of fairy godmother and Jesus, evil isolationist Lindbergh and others in the 1930s, the holy crusade against evil Nazis evil southerners lynching blacks […] the entire liberal brainwashing of the public schools.

Here is the graph I made elsewhere using census data to show the White population’s relative and absolute decline during the period in question:

The racial situation in Heidi Beirich’s home state, 1940 to 2020;
From “Who Lost California?“

Note the rapid “closing of the gap” during Southern California-native Heidi Beirich’s formative years, the 1970s and 1980s.

By this reasoning, one can take anyone born/raised in California, place them along the graph during a window of Birth+15 Years or Birth+20 Years (I would suggest Age 4 to 19 as the political-formative window), and see where they fit to get a rough idea of the (statewide) racial-political conditions they experienced in their formative years. This is an instant-analysis look for a quick possible clue as to the origins of a given person’s own political thinking. (If extending the graph back earlier, the White:Nonwhite ratio maintains a steady steady 8:1 or higher well back into the 19th century.)

For Beirich (b.1967), the politically formative Age-4-to-19 range was 1971 to 1987, distinctly during the critical period of steady White displacement in California that immediately preceded White decline in that state, a process profiled at some length in “Who Lost California?”. When Beirich was 19 (mid-1986 to mid-1987), the loss of White California may have already been a ‘done deal’ and only a matter of time (absent some kind of political cataclysm on the scale of the breakup of the USSR).

I would suggest, therefore, the possibility of a kind of political Stockholm Syndrome,

Beirich as a case of ‘political Stockholm Syndrome’

The young Beirich joining the perceived winning side as an unconscious defense mechanism seems reasonable as a general explanation for her political turn (to which I refer elsewhere in this essay as her “radicalization”), if knowing nothing else.

To the extent this Stockholm Syndrome Politics theory has merit, it probably explains quite many of the people like Beirich in the b.1970s cohort in places like California, and b.1980s and b.1990s Beirich-like figures elsewhere. Beirich is thus a good early case of this phenomenon, and indeed this essay constitutes a ‘case study’ thereof.

(With the b.2000s cohort set to begin to enter political life in the 2020s, I would expect both more of these political-Stockholm-Syndrome whites, of which Beirich may be an early example. I would also, for various reasons, expect to see more of the opposite among this age-cohort, more of ‘Those Who Can See,’ to use a line from They Live and the name of an excellent research-commentary blog run by M.G. Miles; Hail To You is among the latter; as a b.1980s American in an area ahead of the demographic-change curve, I recognize the power of ‘Political Stockholm Syndrome’ and have observed it often.)

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Other explanations for Heidi Beirich’s Radicalization

The portrait of Heidi Beirich we have up to now feels incomplete. We know the ‘when,’ but we don’t know the ‘why’ for her move to the Hard Left, except that is roughly aligns with the vast increase in foreigners in her state.

All we have from her is a rather-questionable assertion that she was frightened by the “skinhead” movement of the 1980s, and so much so that she radicalized. She claims to have seen acquaintances get involved in the Metzger group and that this led her, in righteous indignation, to the Left; she then drifted further and further into an unhealthily ethnomasochist Left by the late 1990s. Her personal trajectory landed her in a career with the left-wing inquisitor group at which she spent twenty years.

Heidi Beirich, at an Oct. 2018 event hosted by the Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank founded and run by John Podesta until Dec. 2013. Aired on CSPAN.

I cannot be alone in feeling that Beirich’s characterization of her own journey to the ethnomasochist Left (i.e., fear and indignation at Skinheads) is a self-serving one. I cannot be alone in feeling there must be more to this story.

I’d really like to understand this, but I don’t know Beirich, have never met her or any of her family or friends or the like, and can only see her through her quasi-public persona (as a “domestic left-wing political commissar,” as it were).

Here is a hypothesis that coalesced in my mind as I was researching her recent ancestry:

A theory on Heidi Beirich’s left-wing radicalization: ‘Blowback’ from late-1940s US policy of ‘denazification’

I suggest above that Heidi Beirich’s formative years in Southern California, during the period when the state was fast losing its White-Christian supermajority, could have been fertile ground for Heidi’s left-wing radicalization, in which political conditions possibly reacted with something in her personality to produce a kind of ‘(ethno)political Stockholm Syndrome’ by which she psychologically ‘dove in’ to the ascendant side.

The great majority of people in such circumstances, though, do not radicalize. Residence in Southern California alone cannot be all there is to the Beirich political origin story. What else is there?

A few people in Steve Sailer’s comment section made one or another remark on Heidi’s ancestry, with some implying they had assumed she was Jewish; Heidi appears to have no Jewish ancestry at all. Once I posted the result of my initial genealogical investigation showing that Beirich to be of entirely German ancestry, many other comments relating to her ‘Germanness,’ her German-Catholic ancestral origins, appeared.

I expanded on their thoughts by saying that

Heidi Beirich is also not just any old American of German ancestry. She has a German-born-and-raised mother. Her mother’s maiden name, Paschmann, is also the name of a chain of grocery stores in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany.

Maybe there is more to the story via the mother.

It turns out that Heidi Beirich’s German mother was of the exact right age to have been exposed, at a vulnerable age, to the intense de-Nazification of the late 1940s — the psychological conditioning of a defeated and occupied people. A people whose country had just been cut in several ugly chunks; millions, from the less-fortunate ‘chunks,’ had lost everything and become westward-bound refugees in their own land; the picture of the Germans ca.1946 as a people standing amid ruined cities, huddling together for warmth, metaphorically for all but often also literally for many, as starvations and the like thinned the ranks on the margins (such deaths only tapered off in occupied Germany, I believe, by early 1948).

(The timing here partly depends on Heidi’s mother’s age at marriage in 1961 to Mr. Beirich of Kansas/Denver, then-recently of the US Army. We would expect a GI bride to be a few years younger than the GI groom [the latter being b.1933 in this case], which would put Heidi’s mother at born circa late 1930s and probably no later than 1940. A 1939 birth would have mother Evelyn turning 22 during her marriage year of 1961, and also thus of elementary school age during the most intense period of denazification.)

“Diese Schandtaten: Eure Schuld!”
(These Disgraceful Acts: Your Fault!)
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Leaflets distributed to civilians in occupied Germany showing photos of corpses and alleging mass killings. The US policy of aggressive ‘Denazification’ will have had traumatic effects, especially on the young, such as Heidi Beirich’s mother.

This timing, with Heidi’s mother early youth (circa ages 7 to 11) spent in a ruined, occupied Germany, subject to a comprehensive program of psychological conditioning, leads to the idea that Heidi Beirich could be an example of ‘blowback’ to the late-1940s US policy of intense denazification, and of blowback against the enthusiastic promotion, towards the denazification policy aim, of any and all atrocity claims, including the wildest, blackest, and least substantiated, some of which hardened into unquesitoned narrative by the late 20th century.

This is to say that Heidi’s mother would have been subject to a religious-cult-like indoctrination on the evils of Germany/Germans specifically, and against nationalistic feelings generally, which could have magnified or weaponized other political strains she inherited from her family.

Given that we tend to get our politics from our parents, it is not so hard to imagine that such views could plausibly have been passed down to daughter Heidi Beirich — in whom they became ‘weaponized,’ to our detriment, in the 2000s and 2010s era.

[End of Post]

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[Addendum I, on voting patterns in Kaldenhausen]

The 2010s-era politics of Heidi Beirich’s mother’s hometown in Germany

Without some serious primary research, it is hard to make any more progress on Heidi’s mother and the ‘blowback’ hypothesis, presented in this post. But we can look for clues on the margins, one of which is to look at the politics of/in her specific town of origin — Kaldenhausen, the Ruhrgebiet, Germany.

If records are available on how this town voted in the critical elections of the 1920s and early 1930s, and to some extent also the elections in the early Federal Republic in the 1950s, those would be of interest. I cannot readily locate such records, but if anyone reading this can, please leave a comment.

We do have the voting patterns in Heidi Beirich’s mother’s hometown in the 2010s, though. The most recent national election, as of this writing, is the Sept. 2017 Bundestagswahl, and the results for the town of Kaldenhausen may be of interest here. I will record and comment on them here.

Beirich’s mother’s hometown is in the present-day voting district of “Bundestagswahlkreis Duisburg I” which had 168,000 voters on the rolls as of 2017. The district historically voted Social Democrat (SPD) with a strong but generally secondary CDU base. (Since 2016, though, voters across Germany have turned against the SPD-CDU duopoloy that has co-administered Germany under most of the long tenure of “Madman Merkel,” overseer — and, in part, director of — the 2015–16 migration disaster. In this district [Duisburg I], there was a net move of 12% from SPD-CDU to the right-wing parties with a nationalist component.)

In Sept. 2017, the voters in “Duisburg I” re-elected a woman named Bärbel Bas (SPD) to represent them in the Bundestag. Frau Bas (born May 1968) is about the same age as Heidi Beirich (born July 1967).

A glance at Bas’ biography shows that she and Beirich have led somewhat parallel, political lives even if across oceans, except that Beirich is a more extreme and activist version of the same archetype.

(Frau Bas was involved in local politics in her area, as an SPD’er, beginning about 1990; Beirich was doing her left-wing political science PhD in the 1990s, before linking up with the SPLC in 1999; Bas describes on her website that she was one of six children but herself has none, though she is married; Beirich is unmarried and no children. So the n=2 final fertility rate for these daughters of the Ruhrgebiet is “zero point zero.”)

Voting patterns of Heidi Beirich’s mother’s hometown in the present day

Here are the totals for Zweitstimmen (party-list votes) in the Sept. 2017 federal election for Bundestagswahlkreis Duisburg I (incl. Kaldenhausen, in which Heidi’s mother had grown up, some sixty to eighty years earlier):

— 58% of the vote for ‘The Establishment’ (the so-called “Volksparteien,” a term that may soon be retired as the two combined are polling well below 50%) and post-Migrant-Crisis Merkelites [a net loss of -12 points vs. 2013, on the rise of the AfD]
— — SPD (Social Democratic Party), 32%;
— — CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 26%.

— 22% of the vote for Rightist (of various kinds), Nationalist, and anti-Ethnoreplacement parties [+11 points vs. 2013]
— — AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), 11%;
— — FDP (Free Democratic Party), 10% (note: this party actually sits approximately between the ‘Establishment’ and ‘Right-Wing,’ but when the “cards were down,” they are reliable, as shown by their walkout and derailing of the then-forming government in 2017, in protest against a Green and Merkelite drive for more Islamic asylum seekers);
— — an aggregate of 1% for minor right-wing parties (NPD, Volksabstimmung, Freie Wähler, ÖDP [the ‘right-wing green party’], Deutsche Mitte).

— 17% of the vote for Leftist and strongly pro-Ethnoreplacement parties [+1 point due to gains by the Turko-Islamic party]
— — Die Linke, 9% (partial descendants of the East German regime party; in the west, as in the Ruhrgebiet, an ‘Antifa’ element is predominant);
— — Greens, 6.6%;
— — Allianz Deutscher Demokraten, 1.3% (a Turko-Islamic party);
— — An aggregate of 0.3% for old-line Marxists (the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany; the “Socialist Unity Party of the 4th International;” and the DKP [Detsche Kommunistiche Partei]).

— Other parties, 3% (mainly single-issue and oddball parties like the Animal Protection Party and the party whose only platform item is Universal Basic Income; also joke parties like the Pirate Party); a total of 1.7% of votes cast were ‘spoiled ballots,’ many of which were probably also spoiled in protest.

“Merkel Must Go” — Germans protest against Angela Merkel over the migrant crisis, 2016, ahead of shift to the AfD

Comment: One can guess which category, above, Beirich would gravitate towards, if she were back in the ancestral Heimat.

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[Addendum II]

Will Heidi Beirich finally publish her book?

Lawrence Auster once had an exchange with a still-moving-up-in-the-commissar-ranks Heidi Beirich which he posted on. One of Auster’s readers, Van Wijk, commented:

[Heidi Beirich wrote:] “[…] we are the only publication that is wholesale dedicated to the topic of American extremism […]”

This is possibly the most amusing thing I’ve read all month. If a pocket of Western people who want to see their own survive as a culture and as a nation qualifies as extremism, what could possibly be mainstream? What is normal to a person like this?

Perhaps she could write a book entitled “Western Civilization: 3500 Years of Extremism.”

I pray that Ms. Beirich lives to see her revolution annihilated; its fields razed, its cattle and flocks taken, and its city walls smashed.

Now, with Heidi’s new-found freedom in light her apparent purge from the SPLC in 2019, she finally has the time to get that book written and published.

I can see it now:

Western Civilization: 3500 Years of Extremism
— by Heidi Beirich, PhD
— Forthcoming: Jan. 20, 2021
— Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Noel Ignatiev (“Abolish the White Race”)

[End of original post]

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Update, July 2020: Beirich is back in the news. In July 2020 she and a confederate named Wendy Via have successfully ordered another mass purge of European activists. See comment for more.

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