Trump has three basic groups of people that he thinks he can use as scary bogeymen to stir up fear among voters: 1. Central American immigrants 2. Black people 3. Muslims He basically cycles back and forth between these three bogeymen, as circumstances allow.
A successful Trumpian attack on birthright citizenship constitutes "things falling apart very fast".
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It might, especially if it is (as it is) a thinly disguised attack on Hispanic identity. But I suspect even that would not suffice to create a Hispanic block vote in the long term--it's not slavery. It would just delay complete assimilation by a few decades.
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Depends on if it leads to persistent, legally enshrined group persecution of Hispanics. For an analogy, look at Japan's Zainichi Koreans.
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A group that is a lot more assimilated than people think: they are not welcome in either Korea and they know that. To paraphrase Steinbeck, they are less foreign in Japan than in Korea..
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This speaks directly to my point.
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Well, I don't think we are in much of disagreement here. The key difference seems to be that I don't think, in the long run, Trumpism will matter for that much. A lot of sound and fury whose impact will be forgotten in a couple of decades, I suspect.
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I should modify this by saying Trumpism will not matter much on the basis of racism. That provides a more relatable short term problem that obscures the fundamental systemic problems associated with it that are far more dangerous in the long run.
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I don't understand that argument. Can you explain?
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I think Trump and the environment that gave rise to his presidency represent breakdown of the functioning of US political institution in general. Where there have been worse social and econ crises, the political system was robust enough for US to survive. 1/
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