Trump Is Taking His War on Immigrants to Despicable New Lows
It’s not hyperbole to say that the White House is making slavery porn the hallmark of its immigration agenda.
In her new book, Democracy Awakening, Heather Cox Richardson tracks the Republican Party’s more than 60-year manipulation of images and language that has warped social reality, obfuscated factual argumentation, and slandered truthful accounts of current events. She documents an escalating assault on shared political experience that undermines any chance of compromise or agreement across party lines. Richardson nimbly ties the abuses of the Trump era to an anti-democratic –- read American fascist – tradition that stretches from antebellum Southern Democrats through abuses of power by Nixon, Reagan, and Mitch McConnell that helped undermine representative government.
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Southern elites, Western libertarians and the conservative coalition
Richardson’s thesis is succinct: “There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.”
Two Americas?
Heather Cox Richardson’s ‘Democracy Awakening’
In part she explains how Trump made conditions worse in Latin America to encourage migration and benefit his anti immigrant policies to get his base energized.
Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War