Election Review Part 3 – The Great Replacement Theory Is Now the GOP’s Main Organizing Principle The wholesale adoption of the great replacement theory this year as the central organizing principle on the American right is essential for understanding this election, its results, and its aftermath: It is the...
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Nov 1, 2024
Election Preview Part 2 – Elon Musk / Stephen Miller, Anti-Trans Ads, and Public Polling Reporting from the Wall Street Journal from early October revealed that the immigrant billionaire Elon Musk and the leading hatemonger Stephen Miller had been working closely together much earlier than was previously known. Their...
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Oct 31, 2024
Election Preview Part 1 – Ad Spending, the Battle for Congress, and Ballot Measures Donald Trump has made the defense of his campaign’s strategy to go all in on aggressive and ugly nativism a part of his stump speech in the closing month of the campaign. “It’s bigger than...
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At the Trump campaign’s racist and authoritarian rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, speakers vetted by the campaign unleashed a torrent of rabidly xenophobic remarks, including an unhinged statement calling Puerto Rico, home to more than three million of our fellow Americans and an ancestral home to millions...
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Oct 25, 2024
When Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House Chief of Staff, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, has the definition of fascism queued up for a conversation with the New York Times to be able to confidently assert that his former boss and the current Republican presidential candidate is a fascist,...
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Oct 11, 2024
Republican-aligned campaigns are on track to spend well over a billion dollars on nativist attack ads It is a little over three weeks til November 5, and Republicans’ closing message is nothing if not consistent– ‘your well-being, your future, and that of the nation’s rests on a purge of the...
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Musk gave $50 million for the ugliest ads in ‘22 and is normalizing the dehumanizing rhetoric core to the GOP’s ‘24 election messaging Nearing the close of the midterm election two years ago, baseball fans were forced to endure the ugly, nativism of white nationalist Stephen Miller’s brand of...
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Sep 27, 2024
GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance is married to a daughter of immigrants and not that long ago took a stand against his now current running mate Donald Trump, calling him “a moral disaster,” a “total fraud,” and possibly “America’s Hitler.” Vance also took a stand against rising xenophobia...
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Stephen Miller has been the mastermind of the GOP’s failed strategy, promised it would deliver and spent millions on it. He’s been wrong every time Republicans have lost on the immigration since 2017. But instead of changing course, they’ve spent more money and gotten more extreme on the issue....
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During remarks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual leadership conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris described in stark terms the reality of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The New York Times reported the “crowd turned from jovial to silent as the vice president asked...
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