“Western civilization” and “the entire destiny of humanity” are about to end, at least as far as Elon Musk is concerned. But doomsday could have been averted on April 1 – All Fools’ Day – if Wisconsin voters had elected a Republican to the state Supreme Court, according to him. That would have forestalled an eventual Democratic takeover of Congress because the vote essentially “was for which party controls the US House of Representatives,” even though it had nothing to do with federal elections.

“Whichever party controls the House, to a significant degree controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. I feel like it’s one of those things that may not seem it’s going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will,” declared the man whom President Donald Trump picked – to dismantle the federal bureaucracy.

South Africa-born Musk and allies donated $20 million in his bid to stave off Armageddon – a negligible amount for a man who earns $4 million per hour from his various enterprises. He showed his seriousness by wearing a “cheese head” Green Bay Packers fan hat at a rally for the conservative candidate Brad Schimel and then threw it into the crowd. But Susan Crawford won by 10 percent, establishing a liberal majority on the court.

It was not the first time the Afrikaner American billionaire had talked in apocryphal terms about the system which was built on the backs of slaves and colonized people. During the president’s second inauguration, he declared that Trump’s re-election marked “a fork in the road of human civilization.”

Trump himself has tended to steer clear of such matters but the underlying message in his overall agenda is obvious, especially his signature policy on immigration which prioritizes what some call the “white race.” Most of the 11 million undocumented migrants slated for deportation are not of European stock. The policy also includes ending Temporary Protected Status which President Joe Biden granted to 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans against deportation.

At the same time, Afrikaners – who are white and are descendants of the Boers or Dutch colonizers of South Africa – are being actively encouraged to come. The president signed an executive order, “Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa,” which incorrectly asserts that the South African government has passed a law enabling it “to seize minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and also that their rights are being violated.

The order terminates “aid or assistance” to South Africa and commits the U.S. to “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

The New York Times reported on an elaborate plan to bring Afrikaners titled “Mission South Africa.” Under Phase One, the U.S. – which is seeking or building large holding facilities to detain undocumented migrants until they can be deported – “has deployed multiple teams to convert commercial office space in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, into ad hoc refugee centers,” The Times reported. “The teams are studying more than 8,200 requests expressing interest in resettling to the United States and have already identified 100 Afrikaners who could be approved for refugee status.” That is out of five million Afrikaners living in the country.

U.S. officials have been directed “to focus particularly on screening white Afrikaner farmers,” The Times reported. The U.S. is providing “security escorts to officials conducting the interviews of potential refugees.”

By the middle of this month, U.S. officials will “propose long-term solutions, to ensure the successful implementation of the president’s vision for the dignified resettlement of eligible Afrikaner applicants.”

The Times noted also that the administration “has effectively banned entry” of about 20,000 actual refugees from countries such as Afghanistan, Congo and Syria “who were ready to travel to the United States before Mr. Trump took office.”

There is still more.

Tim Cocks of Reuters reported that, rather than live under Black rule after the racist apartheid system ended, a group of Afrikaners formed their own town, called Orania, a Dutch word that means “Sunrise.” It is the only town in South Africa where all the residents, numbering under 3,000, are white, as are the workers. A delegation recently visited the U.S. to seek the president’s recognition of Orania as an independent country. That is unlikely to happen, but, then again, tariffs were imposed on an island where the only inhabitants are two penguins – and, poor birds, they happened to be white-and-black.

The Afrikaner plan falls within the president’s frequent musings about wanting white immigrants. In 2018, he mocked Haiti, El Salvador – where he is now sending undocumented migrants – and some African nations as “shithole countries,” while wondering why more migrants are not coming from Norway, The Washington Post reported. Also, talking about Haiti – the country which sent troops to fight on the side of the American Revolution – the president claimed Haitians “all have AIDS.” He also declared that recent Nigerian immigrants would never “go back to their huts.”

Norway’s population is around 80 percent white and, like other Scandinavian nations, traces its heritage to the Middle Ages. Like Sweden, Norway practiced eugenics (and sterilization), but as “as an instrument of social policy up until the ’70s,” Siri Haavie, a Norwegian specializing in the subject, reported in Eurozine magazine in 2003. Still, it would be reasonable to assume that anyone seeking migrants from that part of the world could be thinking about racial purity.

A race-conscious theme runs through other aspects of the immigration policy. One is a list which administration officials are preparing of countries whose citizens will be banned or have to face hurdles, The Times reported. Of the 43 countries under consideration, whites are the majority in only two – Belarus and Russia – whose citizens could be restricted but not banned.

That is why the loss in Wisconsin must be such a blow for Musk. It interrupts the plan. With most of the state’s six million people being European American, surely they should have been racially conscious enough to know what was at stake, Musk probably believed.

Then there is the official policy to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in all ways possible under a presidential order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” that is intended to get rid of “improper ideology.”

All of which should be no surprise. Nathalie Baptiste reported in HuffPost three months before the presidential vote that the Trump campaign posted a meme which, she said implies “that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November, nice suburban neighborhoods will be overrun with hordes of Black people and immigrants.” The post on X read: “Import the third world. Become the third world.”

According to Baptiste: “Side-by-side images ― captioned ‘Your Neighborhood Under Trump’ and ‘Your Neighborhood Under Kamala’ respectively ― show a tranquil residential street and a 2023 Getty photo of recent migrants to the U.S. sitting outside New York’s Roosevelt Hotel in hopes of securing temporary housing. … Most of the migrants in the photo are people of color.”

And then, of course, there is what could be generously termed the unintended consequences of policy. African Americans comprise about 18 percent of the federal workforce – or more than half-million of the total of three million – though only 14 percent of the overall population. The mass layoffs of civil servants which are taking place will be particularly hard, especially for postal workers, 29 percent of whom are African Americans, who are 12 percent of the national workforce.

“Government jobs have long been viewed as an entry point for Black Americans into the middle class and job security when opportunities were scarce elsewhere,” Terry Collins and Phillip M. Bailey reported in USA Today last month. “The federal government has a history of being more welcoming than the private sector,” they added, citing civil rights leaders.

If there will be an Armageddon, that is perhaps what it will look like.