The Sorceress from Westchester – Laura Loomer’s Rise to One of the Most Dangerous Women in America

Es ist drei Uhr morgens am 17. August 2025 im Eisenhower Executive Office Building, und während Washington in trügerischer Ruhe verharrt, scrollt Laura Elizabeth Loomer durch ihre Screenshot-Sammlung – ein digitales Waffenarsenal, mit dem sie Karrieren exekutiert und Kabinette stürzt wie eine Jakobinerin der Algorithmen. „Ich bin Zivilistin“, verkündet sie mit perverser Genugtuung auf X, nachdem wieder ein hochrangiger Beamter auf ihre Intervention hin gefeuert wurde. „Es sollte jeden erschrecken, dass es eine Zivilistin brauchte, die Alarm schlug wegen Menschen aus Gaza, die mit vom Außenministerium ausgestellten Visa in unser Land kommen.“ Die Worte triefen vor kalkulierter Häme, während das State Department hastig verkündet: „Alle Besuchervisa für Personen aus Gaza werden gestoppt“ – eine direkte Reaktion auf Loomers Kampagne, die sie stolz als „EILMELDUNG“ markiert: „TRUMP-REGIERUNG STOPPT VISA FÜR MENSCHEN AUS GAZA NACH LAURA LOOMERS ANFRAGEN.“

Laura Loomer is no longer merely a shrill fringe figure. In her own words, she openly calls for an authoritarian overhaul: “I do in fact want President Trump to be the ‘dictator’ the Left thinks he is, and I want the right to be just as intent on locking up and silencing our violent political enemies as they pretend we are.” That is not a rhetorical slip; it is a programmatic plea for the state persecution of political opponents, framed as a wish, not a warning. Anyone who demands to “lock up and silence” dissenters is calling for political repression and legitimizing violence against the democratic opposition.

She celebrates it when the state uses the most extreme means against loose alliances and protest movements: "Thank you President Trump for designating ANTIFA as a major terrorist organization!" This criminalizes every anti-fascist action across the board and pushes it into the realm of counterterrorism - with all the consequences for surveillance, prosecution and stigmatization of opponents. Such statements do not occur in a vacuum; they normalize the use of the security apparatus and counterterrorism laws against domestic opponents.

Loomer intensifies the narrative by personally attacking left-wing female politicians and casting them as traitors: "This is why you don't staff the admin with Democrats... Don't hire or nominate anymore Democrats. Coalition building only looks good on paper." For her, coalitions are treason, compromises are weakness - an ideology that delegitimizes the ability to compromise and democratic balance. Anyone who understands politics only as a zero-sum game in which every compromise means betrayal provides the preconditions for political purges.

Even worse are the substantive outbursts that strike openly antisemitic and dehumanizing notes: "I hope we will see the Trump administration condemn these insane Jew-hating conspiracy theorists" and the slurs that appear in her posts are no longer private tantrums, they are part of a political program that fuels enemy images and dehumanizes minorities. Such formulations feed hatred and create an atmosphere in which exclusion and discrimination become politically enforceable.

And as if that were not dangerous enough, Loomer claims direct influence over security-relevant personnel decisions: "Pentagon sources have confirmed to me that ... nomination is being reconsidered due to my reporting." An activist who openly wishes for a dictator, entangles herself in hate campaigns and at the same time boasts of having influenced personnel decisions in the defense sphere, which unfortunately is true not only in this case, - that is no longer journalism, that is power politics in dirty hands. When figures like this gain access to power apparatuses or can destabilize their decisions, democratic oversight is acutely threatened.

In sum, Loomer combines radical glorification of violence against political opponents, open delegitimization of democratic compromises, antisemitic lapses and the claim of real influence over security structures into an explosive mix. This is no mere provocation anymore - this is an attack on the foundations of pluralistic democracy. Anyone who still dismisses this as a "marginal outburst" underestimates the concrete danger: a person who acts and speaks like this is an accelerant for authoritarian politics and an active threat to democratic culture.

Born on May 21, 1993 in the sterile suburban geometry of North Castle, Westchester County, where the hedges are cut with laser precision and Republican civility hangs in the air like formaldehyde, Loomer has risen to the uncrowned grand inquisitor of a system that is letting its democratic safeguards fall like dominoes. Mount Holyoke College, that liberal bastion of female educational elite, spat her out after one semester - or was it the other way around? Barry University in Miami, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism in 2015, became the forge of her radicalization. Even then she perfected the art of infiltration: as an undercover “journalist” for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, she sneaked into Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters, later chaining herself to Twitter’s New York office building - a performance of self-victimization after the platform banned her for hate speech.

Her legal record reads like a compendium of defeat, which she paradoxically reinterprets as a victory column: defamation lawsuits against the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN - all dismissed. Her lawsuit against the tech giants Twitter, Facebook and Google for alleged conspiracy against conservative voices - failed. The election defeats in Florida in 2020 and 2022 - crushing. Yet each of these defeats transformed her into a martyr in the eyes of her supporters. “You know the saying that every life matters?” she posts with icy contempt. “Well, I do not agree. And the lives of my haters do not matter to me. In my mind, they are already spiritually dead to me.”

The mechanics of power through extortion

What makes Loomer today an existential threat to American democracy is not an official position - the voters denied her that twice - but her role as a self-proclaimed commissar of purges with a direct line to Donald Trump. Moving through the hallowed halls of power in her wake is a who’s who of American right-wing extremism: Proud Boys cadres, Oath Keepers veterans, QAnon prophets - our right-wingers, as one would say in Germany when speaking of those who march in Chemnitz or plan doomsday in Telegram groups. These figures, who in any functioning constitutional state would be monitored by the domestic intelligence service, have through Loomer gained access to the most sensitive areas of the American government, sometimes escorted by Secret Service agents who once swore to protect the Constitution but now serve as the bodyguards of its gravedigger. Whoever takes her on, philosophically speaking, gets a visit from the Grim Reaper.

“Incredible how politicians have zero knowledge of Islam, which sees all non-Muslim women as sex slaves and all women as second-class people,” she hammers into the keyboard, before escalating to the ultimate: “Mamdani wants legalized prostitution to make it easier for Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women on the streets of New York.” It is the language of the pogrom, digitized for the 21st century. Her pathological obsession with Muslim immigrants reaches dimensions that would have made even Goebbels blush: “40,000 Muslims filled the streets of Dearborn, Michigan today,” she reposts with the poisoned addition: “Not a single American flag.”

The mechanics of her power are revealed in the regular meetings with Vice President JD Vance in the West Wing, where she hands over lists of names - death lists for careers, compiled from social media posts and private messages. Mike Waltz, national security adviser, fired. Timothy Haugh, NSA director, removed. The list grows daily. The real reason for Trump’s submission to Loomer’s regime may lie in an explosive detail: according to consistent reports, she possesses unredacted versions of the Epstein documents - those toxic papers that document the darkest secrets of the American power elite. Jeffrey Epstein’s network, his connections to presidents, princes and CEOs, the flights on the infamous “Lolita Express,” the visits to his private island - all this is possibly in Loomer’s hands. Whoever possesses these papers holds a master key to blackmail. Loomer has never explicitly threatened, but her cryptic hints on social media, her references to “coming revelations.” This constellation explains why Loomer was effectively able to rise to personnel chief of the national security apparatus without ever undergoing a security clearance.

America dances to her tune

“In a powerful image, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House is draped in the American flag,” she writes mockingly, “while pro-Hamas, anti-Trump foreigners scream, whistle and wave printed ‘Open Borders’ and ‘F**k Trump’ signs. The anti-Trump movement is literally a circus of foreigners and coastal elites.” The irony that she herself hails from the “coastal elite” of New York escapes her completely. “Too bad the coastal elites don’t house the foreigners in their own homes. Now they are OUR problem,” she adds with a grinning emoji.

ut Loomer is only the most visible figure in an ensemble of apocalyptic actors. Stephen Miller, the architect of migration policy, the man who turns people into numbers, into threats, into enemies. Miller is the cold strategist who views hatred as a political tool, a master of fear propaganda. Steve Bannon, the chaos magician who believes the world must burn in order to be reordered, orchestrates the disinformation campaigns like a global firestorm. For Bannon, truth is negotiable, a means to an end. Paula White, finally, the high priestess of political religion, the voice that claims God for Trump’s agenda. For her, Trump is not simply a president - he is a leader sent by God. White has refashioned Christianity into a weapon, sanctifies hatred and transforms political agitation into a spiritual mission. Her attacks on Pope Robert Prevost, Leo XIV, represent a masterpiece of distortion and manipulation, when she, as a self-proclaimed investigative journalist, claims that the pope is an enemy of Trump, a supporter of “open borders” policy and an opponent of American values, relying on the classic strategy of the extreme right to slander opponents as “anti-Americans” or “enemies of freedom” - yet it does not begin with a scandal, not with an official statement, but with a sentence, casually posted, deliberately spread: “Deport Xi Jinping’s daughter,” not a dystopian novel draft but a real call from contemporary America, announcing a new campaign, for Trump’s America needs enemies and is now beginning to look for them again on campus, where international students, professors with migrant backgrounds, all those who in Loomer’s paranoid worldview count as potential fifth columns, become targets, while the universities, once bastions of free thought, mutate into the next battlefield of her digital inquisition, where every foreign accent becomes a suspicion and every critical voice an act of treason.

What is unfolding before our eyes transcends the categories of conventional political analysis. It is the live-streamed vivisection of American democracy, carried out by amateur surgeons with dirty hands. When the State Department issued medical-humanitarian visas for Palestinians from Gaza - people in need of medical care in a war zone - Loomer launched a campaign that within hours led to the complete suspension of the program. “After publishing my reports yesterday that exposed flights of people from Gaza arriving at airports across the US,” she triumphs publicly, while the State Department hastily speaks of a “complete and thorough review.”

The perversity of this architecture of power reveals itself in its full obscenity: a woman who openly spreads conspiracy theories about 9/11, drenches George Soros in anti-Semitic clichés and attacks Kamala Harris with racism has risen to become the most powerful woman in America - not through elections, not through competence, but through the perfect fusion of fanaticism, blackmail and digital violence. Democracy does not die under cannon thunder, but under the clatter of smartphone keyboards. At the center of this maelstrom sits Laura Loomer, the failed journalist from Westchester, whose racism is so blatant that even her supporters sometimes recoil. America dances to her tune, a shrill requiem on reason, composed in 280-character morsels. The sorceress from Westchester has cast her final spell: she has turned America into a nightmare from which there seems to be no awakening.