C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
āDonald Trump doesnāt so much run for something as he runs against somebody. His latest attacks are aimed at Haitian immigrants, but what weāre seeing is a playbook previously used to target other ethnic or religious groups, and with a similar goal: to make the MAGA base feel like theyāre under attack.
āThe followers must feel besieged,ā as the late Italian writer Umberto Eco, who grew up in fascist Italy, wrote nearly three decades ago in The New York Review of Books. āThe easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.ā Indeed, in order to enact much of his radical right-wing agenda, Trump needs his people to think America is on the brink of collapseāand to associate that collapse with an āother.ā The goal is to panic the base, and since there isnāt a scary enough truth, lies will do.
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But the irony of Trumpās fascist rhetoric was particularly rich in Springfield, where the Haitian influx has revitalized the cityās workforceāas with so many places in America, where there just werenāt enough people living in the area to keep the economy going.ā
White grievance politics, racist replacement theory, lies about America ācollapsingā ā Trump is incapable of governing; Trump is unfit to be president.
āThe followers must feel besieged,ā as the late Italian writer Umberto Eco, who grew up in fascist Italy, wrote nearly three decades ago in The New York Review of Books. āThe easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.ā Indeed, in order to enact much of his radical right-wing agenda, Trump needs his people to think America is on the brink of collapseāand to associate that collapse with an āother.ā The goal is to panic the base, and since there isnāt a scary enough truth, lies will do.
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But the irony of Trumpās fascist rhetoric was particularly rich in Springfield, where the Haitian influx has revitalized the cityās workforceāas with so many places in America, where there just werenāt enough people living in the area to keep the economy going.ā
White grievance politics, racist replacement theory, lies about America ācollapsingā ā Trump is incapable of governing; Trump is unfit to be president.
