Because Trump is indeed scapegoating others for our problems & even blaming those others for non-existent problems, his calling himself a nationalist is simultaneously a dogwhistle to white nationalists and an outright lie that will in fact redound to the detriment of the nation.
A thing I can’t stop thinking about is that the gunman targeted a synagogue because of Jews who remembered that we were also once refugees, and chose to help others subject to the whims of demagogic “statesmen” blaming outiders for their nation’s problems.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/caravan-lie-sparked-massacre-american-jews/574213/ …
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I was thinking about this too: a literal erasure of memory. Indeed something in general is lost in our cultural memory w the passing of this generation and their authority of witness in this moment.
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Truly you are deeply searching to make a link between this atrocity and Trump. A very marginal argument. I could have devised a better story. Without using your level of imagination. Perhaps Trump has total mind control over lunatics. That’s more believable.
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This is from the article you cited to support your central claim. Clearly you have no shame.pic.twitter.com/UwLy7lm896
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Strong contender for the most absurd article of the year.
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#BOT. Y’all keep pushing the BS that preaching hate & lies has no impact on followers. Did BinLaden fly those planes on 9/11? Or did he just spur others on to do it?#trumpHateSpeech is dangerous.
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So glad my Oma and mother are not alive to see this. They loved that the US welcomed and embraced them and let them reinvent themselves as Americans. Mom gave back and held public office.
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Even in quotes, he doesn't deserve that honorific.
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Unless the shooter is an American Indian, his family were immigrants too.
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