With the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, panicked liberals fearful of a Fascism that never seems to happen outside of their fervid imaginations are seeking an escape route via obtaining foreign citizenship. Also key to their escape from Orange Man Bad is getting foreign passports as chronicled on Monday in the New Yorker by Lauren Markham, “Seeking a Second Passport.”
The subtitle only adds to the hilarity of their inflated paranoia: “For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan.”
To get an idea of how much of a bubble Markham and her fellow liberals live in, here is a revelatory quote:
…Even before Donald Trump was reëlected, everyone I knew seemed to be seeking a second form of citizenship. My sister-in-law applied for Irish citizenship for herself and my niece and nephew. (My brother would be eligible for it, too, eventually, if they decided to live there.) My best friend was also hoping to get her kids Italian citizenship through her husband. My uncle was trying to figure out how to get Greek citizenship through his grandmother—my great-grandmother—and my cousin was considering doing the same. More than a dozen friends who didn’t already have dual citizenship told me that they were sorting out pathways of their own.
So EVERYONE you know is seeking foreign citizenship? It would be highly surprising if normal people outside of the delusional liberal bubble know of even one person seeking foreign citizenship.
If you Google “Apply for citizenship in Europe,” you’ll find a seemingly endless scroll of agencies that are ready to guide you through the process. Many European countries have bloodline-citizenship laws—which, though varying in the details, essentially assert that citizenship rights are passed down through the generations, like DNA. Such laws are on the books in Greece, Spain, Portugal, France, and Ireland—countries where tens of millions of American families can claim ancestry. In recent years, West African nations, including Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria, have laid the groundwork for Black Americans whose ancestors were abducted into enslavement to obtain citizenship. Other countries, such as Vanuatu and Saint Lucia, offer citizenship for financial investment, suggesting a new world order in which it’s a luxury commodity, up for purchase.
Do they charge more for the highly neurotic delusional applicants? Just asking for a liberal friend.
Not a week went by after Trump won the 2024 election when the author of this liberal fright flight piece reached out for escape plan information from an Italian lawyer by the name of Marco Permunian who specializes in obtaining Italian citizenship for the laughably paranoid:
I reached out to him just a few days after the November, 2024, election to check in on his business. “We are completely overwhelmed,” he said. He estimated that he was receiving an e-mail from a potential new client every three minutes. Permunian told me that interest spiked after the onset of the COVID epidemic, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the début of CNN’s Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. But he hadn’t seen numbers like this since Trump was first elected in 2016. “People are seeking an exit plan,” he said.
As it turns out this seeking of foreign citizenships is mostly just performative art on the part of liberals since most of them, unfortunately, don’t really intend to leave the country as the Markham concedes. It seems they just want to flash their foreign passports to fellow liberals as weird display of paranoid bragging rights:
In most cases, the people looking for second passports didn’t actually intend to move abroad—not immediately, anyway, or not unless things in the U.S. took a bad enough turn. “It’s psychological, mostly,” Olga Kallergi, a Greek attorney who helps Greek Americans secure citizenship by descent, said of these applications. “People are concerned and want to have an option.” Kallergi, too, has been swamped during the second Trump Administration…
The good news is that Rosie O’Donnell still remains in Ireland.
