Eric Lendrum is a speechwriter at the Department of Homeland Security who began the role in March 2025. His Instagram previously showed him posing with President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance. Posts and statements on blogs and podcasts linked to him express racist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ+ views. His LinkedIn lists him as a contributor to American Greatness from December 2017 to March 2025. A December 2021 blog post compared conservatives' alleged ostracism to Jews before Nazi Germany and described January 6 participants as "peaceful protesters" facing "persecution for their patriotism." He wrote that dehumanization enables authoritarian enslavement, citing slavery and the Holocaust. On his podcast he described seeing Democrats "crouching under their chairs" during January 6 as "gratifying."
In a December 2021 blog post on American Greatness - the "leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism" - Lendrum claimed American conservatives were "on a course for being every bit as ostracized and alienated from broader society as Jews were in the years leading up to Nazi Germany". He went on to claim those who stormed the Capitol building were "peaceful protesters" and face "persecution for their patriotism".
He went on to claim those who stormed the Capitol building were "peaceful protesters" and face "persecution for their patriotism". "It has been said that the most surefire way to create an authoritarian regime is to completely dehumanize a significant portion of the population, so that their subsequent enslavement by the state will not face any larger resistance," Lendrum wrote. "It was true during slavery, it was true during the Holocaust, and it is true now."
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