NY Young Republican Club leader to speak in Pretoria, cementing bonds with Afrikaners and European far right

International conference circuit gives worldwide right wing opportunities to share ideas and learn from each other

The president of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) is a featured speaker at a conference this week in Pretoria, South Africa, hosted by an Afrikaner nationalist group whose founder was instrumental in persuading the American right that white South African farmers face systematic attacks.

Stefano Forte, also the executive director of the billionaire-funded 1776 Project Pac, will speak at the Lex Libertas Future of Nations conference on 25 February alongside leading figures from the Afrikaner Solidarity Movement, members of Belgium’s far-right Vlaams Belang – whose predecessor was outlawed for racism – and a political analyst from a thinktank wholly funded by the regime of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.