I don't know how it struck other people, but the word "homeland" entering American politics in late 2001 was my first real taste of American nativism, which would of course grow to dominate our politics in both parties. I'd never been uneasy before that about being foreign born. https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1436691185121337350 …
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In the 90's, campaigning as a "fifth-generation American" (completely routine even among progressives now) would have been correctly interpreted as a nativist dog whistle, and "America First" or Biden's "America First Lite" were slogans too tainted by fascism to consider using.pic.twitter.com/BszBIiRhbk
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I mean, very strong Orwellian connotation of “words can be used as power” to the term too.
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