2. Too often, Trump's birtherism is treated as a sick joke: racist, but really aimed at political rivals, comparable to his crude nicknames. But it's more than that: it's undergrided by a conceptual framework of a double standard of citizenship.
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3. There's a reason why birtherism resonates among Trump's right wing base: it's not just a way to insult an Obama or a Harris but also, more importantly, to re-assert white power to decide who is and isn't an American.
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4. Birtherism is a dominance view. Dominant are they who can decide who is and isn't a citizenship. It's the same move white discourse on whether Obama or Harris are "really" black. It's an assertion of power to define identity.
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5. More thoughts on the hidden logic of birtherism.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/birtherism-trump-racist-kamala/ …
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Aren’t you German?
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Are you an ICE agent?
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It's going to be really weird in 2024 with the Cruz/Haley ticket.
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Yeah it’s just plain old nativism dressed up in a legalistic fright wig
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Why would this work, though? "Not from the US" isn't a race.
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True. Trump’s mother was an immigrant from Scotland. Ivanka’s mother was an immigrant from Czechoslovachia who wasn’t a citizen at the time of her birth.pic.twitter.com/o4sHSQDfJD
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