The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949

Table of contents

• Jimmie Åkesson invited the leader of an organised crime network and at least one antisemite and racist to his wedding
• Ebba Busch poses with an antisemitic racist at Åkesson's wedding
• Swedish right-wing politics today
• The Sweden Democrats kept a troll factory and sold but kept control of their propaganda YouTube channel
• Swedish right-wing politics: oligarchy

What's new in popular right-wing extremism in Sweden?

Well. Since I last wrote about that subject on this blog, things have happened.

One of the biggest things is probably that Jimmie Åkesson, the party leader of the Sweden Democrats, has married. What? I hear you ask; what's special about that? Well, a few things.

In the year of 2024, the high-up Sweden Democrat named Richard Jomshof submitted a parliamentary procedure to the Swedish government. This procedure, named 2024/25:2959¹, was meant to limit persons who are involved in gang-related crime in 43 different ways, for example, impose 'curfew at night, mandatory foot shackles, and the possibility for police to lock up gang criminals for preventive reasons' (my translation).

This procedure was recently retracted². Why did that happen? According to Jomshof, the Sweden Democrats jumped the gun and needed to work on it some more.

I have a different theory of why the procedure was retracted:

Jimmie Åkesson invited the leader of an organised crime network and at least one antisemite and racist to his wedding

Brick factory, meet glass-house showroom.

Actually, the problem isn't that Åkesson and his bride-to-be invited suspicious invididuals to their parties. They've done this countless times before, as with the case of Ulf Hansen, a high-up in the Sweden Democrat party, who's spread racist conspiracy theories online³². The problem is, for the Sweden Democrats, when they have to answer for their horrid going-ons.

Back in July 2024, Expo, the Sweden-based anti-racism foundation, notified the Sweden Democrats that one of the biggest and most senior Sweden Democrats, Mattias Karlsson⁶, had personal ties with the leader of Comanches MC, one of the biggest criminal gangs in the Nordics³. Karlsson has posted pictures of himself with the gang leader on multiple occasions. The gang leader has been politically active in the Sweden Democrats before partaking in Åkesson's wedding¹⁰.

Apart from there being many security-related problems and risks in their relationship, the risk of information leakages and extortion is palpable.

So, was the gang leader invited to Åkesson's wedding?

Left photograph: a person wearing a Comanches MC vest. The '1%' notion means that they're outside of society. Right photograph: Jimmie Åkesson, party leader of the Sweden Democrats, to the left, with the leader of Comanches MC to the right.

Comanches MC are described as 'a mix of a street gang and a motorcycle club', according to Carsten Norton, a Danish journalist who's written a book about Comanches MC⁴.

Peter Kadhammar, journalist, reminds us that Jimmie Åkesson never knows or remembers anything. That is his modus operandi when trying to deflect himself out of precarious situations⁵.

Åkesson hasn't known that one of his closest friends for over 25 years, Mattias Karlsson, hangs out with a gang leader of a criminal network, while the political party that he supposedly represents is supposedly against gang-related crime. An ironic thing about all of this is that the Sweden Democrats have since long expressed their desire to make 'illoyal' Swedish citizens 'stateless'. In other words, they want 'illoyal' persons to lose their Swedish citizenship. If we look away from the fact that it goes against fundamental Swedish law and European Union laws: shouldn't quite a lot of Sweden Democrats be declared stateless?

Also: could one argue that Åkesson deserves to remain in his current position? He's not even to be found in government; he's not there 92.5% of the time when government officials are asked to cast votes²¹, which is something basic that should be demanded from our politicians.

Åkesson claims that he joined the Sweden Democrats but didn't know the party was founded by nazis. He also claims he wasn't aware the party was teeming with nazis and other types of racist xenophobes, something that, well, everyone knew at the time.

Ebba Busch poses with an antisemitic racist at Åkesson's wedding

Oh yes, speaking of nazis, I did mention that there was at least one antisemite and racist at Åkesson's wedding.

Left: Ebba Busch, party leader for the Swedish Christian Democrats. Right: Rebecca Mistereggen, antisemite, racist, and conspiracy theorist.

Ebba Busch is a special person. She is the party leader for the Christian Democrats, a party that's hanging onto their spot in the Swedish government by the skin of their teeth as they keep losing more votes in every governmental election.

Not that long ago, she was sentenced for committing a serious crime: grave defamation⁷. The press conference during which she confessed to her crime was classic Busch, in a sense; she spoke nonsense and deflected; she believed 'in my heart, I'm innocent' (which completely undermines the judicial system that she claimed to support) and asked 'anyone who comments on the sentence to donate money to organisations who work against pedophilia'⁸.

Busch has spoken out and said that people who hang out with extremists should end their political career⁹.

Ebba Busch leaving Jimmie Åkesson's wedding.

Swedish right-wing politics today

Ulf Kristersson, the Swedish prime minister and party leader for the Moderate Party, has done one thing after the entire affair was revealed. He has stated one word against the gang leader having partaken in the festivities (this time; he didn't mention the times in the past when the crime kingpin has hung out with top Sweden Democrats.

Kristersson said the ordeal was 'inappropriate'¹¹.

Naturally, Kristersson didn't do anything else.

The top two Swedish political parties who have lost most of their voters to the Sweden Democrats are the Moderate Party and the Christian Democrats¹².

Little wonder then, that the Sweden Democrats do as they please.

I wonder what Jesus would say about this, Ebba Busch. Don't forget that Ulf Kristersson lied a Holocaust survivor to her face when he said the Moderate Party would never collaborate with the Sweden Democrats¹³.

Before I end this post, there's one more thing that happened earlier in 2024:

The Sweden Democrats kept a troll factory and sold but kept control of their propaganda YouTube channel

TV4, a Sweden-based TV channel, broadcast a documentary TV series named Kalla Fakta. In May of 2024, they broadcast two episodes about how the Sweden Democrats have consciously run a 'troll factory' (their own words) to both undermine political opponents, the parties they collaborate with as part of the Tidö Agreement³³, and to undermine democracy by infiltrating and lying about their opposition¹⁴.

Take a moment to think about that: one of the biggest political parties in Sweden has run a troll factory and worked to undermine democracy.

The documentary shows how the 'former' Sweden Democrats-owned and run YouTube channel 'Riks' is still controlled by the Sweden Democrats, in spite of having been sold and now has 'nothing to do with the Sweden Democrats', which was and is a lie. The Riks offices are actually next door to the Sweden Democratic party marketing headquarters, and the door between them is seldom closed, except for when non-Sweden-Democrat-run media turn up; this is shown in the documentary series.

How do we know all this? A fierce Kalla Fakta reporter acted under cover and infiltrated the propaganda arm of the Sweden Democrats. Most of what the reporter accessed was recorded, both in audio and video.

Here's some of what the TV exposé revealed¹⁵; all translations from Swedish are mine:

• Kalla Fakta have identified 23 accounts that are operated from SD's communications department without it being apparent. The numbers 50, 70, and 100 accounts are also mentioned on the inside of the party, but the names of the accounts are usually not discussed openly and the exact number is therefore unknown to Kalla Fakta.
• These are thirteen accounts on TikTok, three accounts on Youtube, three accounts on Instagram and four accounts on Facebook. Two of the accounts are "White Offended Women" and "Politically Incorrect".
• Humor is described by the online warriors as an effective tool to convince young people to become Sweden Democrats.
• Communications manager Joakim Wallerstein acts to bypass what is called a "troll factory block" on Tiktok by buying new mobile phones for the online warriors for tens of thousands of Swedish Crowns (thousands of Euro).
• Employees create deepfakes by using AI, where they pretend to be political opponents. For example, they make Magdalena Andersson [the Social Democratic party leader] say things she has never said.

Jimmie Åkesson's first public statement after the troll factory and how the Sweden Democrats have used deepfakes and still are tied to Riks was simple: this is 'calculated manipulation'¹⁶.

Nota bene: he didn't mean to say his own party was the source of calculated manipulation, in spite of that being blatantly obvious.

Jimmie Åkesson didn't know he joined a nazi-based political party when he joined the Sweden Democrats, he claims. Either that's a lie, and/or he doesn't know right from wrong. You be the judge of that. Now, he claims that 'disinformation is not consciously being spread'¹⁷.

From a philosophical perspective, I've never seen Åkesson define consciousness: if Åkesson would ever have met Timothy Leary, I'm sure not even Leary could have nailed down Åkesson's metaphysics.

One more thing about Richard Jomshof, from an interview²² (my translation):

We live with Judaism as an ethnic minority in Sweden today, with synagogues, rabbis, children who go to Jewish schools. Is that a problem?

• No, I have never seen that as a problem because the Jewish group is so small.

However, as the number of Jews in Sweden grows bigger, what will Jomshof say then?

Swedish right-wing politics: oligarchy

I recently read Ben Riley-Smith's wondrous and thoroughly researched book The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories¹⁸. Riley-Smith interviewed hundreds of persons intimately tied to conservative English rule for the past decades and, in his book, weaves a simple tale of how the conservative political party is only interested in ruling the UK, not in maintaining any kind of political ideology. Backstabbing, screeching, and political murder was more the order of the day than morals and ethics, as perhaps most clearly shown through Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson.

I highly recommend listening to the Start the Week radio/podcast episode where Riley-Smith speaks eloquently about and explains his book¹⁹. Funnily enough, I also recommend listening to Emily Watson talk about her recent translation of The Iliad in the same episode...

I mention Riley-Smith's book not because of the Sweden Democrats. I've previously mentioned how Björn Söder, one of the original 'gang of four', was kicked out of the party leadership and found out when a newspaper called and told him the news²⁰.

No, I mention the book because of how the English conservative party works, as well as the American republican party; their followers, the Swedish parties who want a taste of the brown³⁴ so badly that they desperately try anything to keep 'their' voters from slipping out of their grasp. The Swedish Liberal Party are on their way out of government because many of their most devoted voters are leaving. I mentioned the Christian Democrats are also close to not having enough votes to stay in government. The Moderate Party are losing vast troves of votes to the Sweden Democrats.

Current Swedish right-wing politics is oligarchy.

Speaking of the Christian Democrats, here's a simple anecdote about their swift right-wing turn. When Alice Theodorescu Måwe²⁶, currently a Christian Democrat (formerly with the Moderate Party), has feebly tried to cause a lot of xenophobic damage, she today earns 10,300 Euro (plus extra money, a sum that varies per month) per month. The Swedish Left Party representative Hanna Gedin, states that it's unreasonable that Swedish-citizen representatives should earn a salary that's several times that of a Swedish citizen. Theodorescu Måwe voted against halving her own salary²⁷.

Theodorescu Måwe recently said there should be a law for Sweden to only accept migrants who recognise the state of Israel²⁸. On the other hand, she stops responding³⁰ whenever Israel does something bad, like when Yoav Gallant, their Minister of Defense, makes genocidal statements³¹.

Ebba Busch has stated that the Sweden Democrats have 'come to terms with their past' where antisemitism is concerned²⁹. This claim is easily debunked by some quick web searches or by checking the sources that are mentioned in the blog post that you're currently reading.

So, does this mean that the Sweden Democrats are on their way into government? They're still relegated to stay on the sidelines. But they're fascists. Åkesson alone made the decision on where the Sweden Democrats stand on NATO (by the way, they did a 180 switch as they were previously completely against NATO²⁵) and in the words of Richard Jomshof, they are pro-Viktor Orbán's Hungary²³. Let me translate Jomshof's words from 2015, as mentioned in that article:

Because Sweden is not Hungary, because we are not in government (yet) and because the media in Sweden does not work like the media in Hungary, we have to adapt to the reality that prevails here. This means, not least, that we have to adapt our rhetoric to the current situation."

Yet.

The Sweden Democrats may think they're bound for glory. But that's the party line; it's not a human line. Humans are always prone to change. Just look at the large number of defectors from the Sweden Democrats²⁴. People tend to fight for people, and as everyone knows, keeping an open mind will always lead to greater empathy and a greater quality of life.

The Sweden Democrats is, intellectually speaking, a dead political party. It's a xenophobic and hypocritical experiment that should have been taken off the market a long time ago. The people who vote for the Sweden Democrats don't cast their vote for rational thought, nor for empathy, until they themselves are faced with the harsh realities that Mohammad faces. Until they start speaking with Mohammad, and realise there's no difference between Mohammad and themselves. Because we're all the same.

And we all need to do our utmost to help ourselves out of this mess.

I suddenly think of a beautiful quote that I saw on someone's t-shirt:

The only time you should look down on someone is when you're helping them up.