Folks should grapple with this @dylanmatt piece, which has nudged me in his direction
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/15/13286498/donald-trump-voters-race-economic-anxiety …
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good piece. But wonder how
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with notion that open borders is an obviously good policy not just in theory, but in practice.
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Not that they're necessarily contradictary. But one thing I've taken away from Vox's takes on the rise of far-right
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nationalism is that mass immigration can activate profoundly dangerous political forces.
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@EricLevitz@dylanmatt it's complicated, because on one hand in US those fears often aren't really correlated with anything... more1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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2/ anti-immigrants hysteria in Idaho than TX etc. But on other hand, in Sweden and Germany, legit questionable
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3/ migration policy led to fairly terrifying far-right backlash. It seems complicated.
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and Cologne, etc mass sex assaults which the PC don't want to talk about.
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