Washington DC - The US Department of State in April launched a Substack blog, and its most recent post has been turning some heads.

Last week, the department published a post titled "The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe," in which author Samuel Samson – who also serves as Senior Advisor for the agency's Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – says the US and Europe have "a unique bond forged in common culture, faith... and above all, a shared Western civilizational heritage."

But Samson argued that current social and political issues in Europe will inevitably have repercussions in the US.

"Across Europe, governments have weaponized political institutions against their own citizens and against our shared heritage. Far from strengthening democratic principles, Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance," Samson wrote.

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"Europe's democratic backsliding not only impacts European citizens but increasingly affects American security and economic ties, along with the free speech rights of American citizens and companies," he later added.

According to Vox, Samson is a 2021 college graduate with no experience whatsoever as a diplomat. He now serves as an aide to Department Secretary Marco Rubio.

He has written essays in the past about "entryism," a strategy in which a small group joins an organization with the intent of changing it from within, which he and others appear to be implementing now.

Samson's post has been getting a lot of attention as critics have accused him of touting a number of far-right ideologies, such as the Great Replacement theory, which the National Immigration Forum defines as the idea that "welcoming immigration policies – particularly those impacting nonwhite immigrants – are part of a plot designed to undermine or 'replace' the political power and culture of white people living in Western countries" plus aspects of Christian Nationalism.

It comes as President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have implemented unprecedented changes since he was re-elected, leading an aggressive anti-immigration effort, and pushing the idea that Christians in the US are being persecuted.

Vox reporter Zack Beauchamp argued that Samson's op-ed is "not a one-off," but rather "a sign that a truly radical ideological movement has begun successfully executing on its stated strategy for entering the political mainstream."