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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Kristi Noem Hates FEMA
It seems the far right has a long history of believing whacky conspiracy theories. As to why Trump and Noem want to end FEMA, as we know it, this is as a good a guess as any.
From Salon:
When FEMA was founded in 1979, far-right groups immediately circulated rumors that FEMAs disaster relief mission was a cover story for the true goal: Rounding up white Christians into concentration camps, so the globalists (read: Jews, people of color, feminists, queer people) could impose the New World Order.
As usual with racist conspiracists, the psychological motivation is a combination of sublimated shame and defensiveness, manifesting in a victim complex. In the imagination of right-wingers, the real victims are white Christians, and its the people who were once subjected to slavery, concentration camps and genocide who are the oppressors.
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/14/why-kristi-noem-hates-fema/

bucolic_frolic
(51,381 posts)I need to process it. But this reply is to remind, from what I recall, that G.H.W.Bush used the term "New World Order" in a speech as president. I don't recall the context so some might want to pan for gold in them there speeches.
slightlv
(6,094 posts)and have no idea THEY are that dreaded "New World Order!" They are the Beast they've screamed Democrats are for so long...
jmbar2
(7,045 posts)FEMA still has a post on their website debunking this oft-recycled CT. I'm surprised they haven't taken it down yet.
https://www.fema.gov/node/rumor-responder-lodging#:~:text=This%20is%20all%20false.,not%20secretly%20operate%20mining%20settlements.