TRUMP’S TURN FROM IMMIGRATION TO THE ENEMY WITHIN: Trump’s shift from demonizing immigrants to targeting leftists is straight out of the fascist playbook.
Immigration was not a topic discussed at the first (and possibly last) 2020 presidential debate. Latinos also were not mentioned. See also here. That is very different from 2016 when Donald Trump made Mexican immigrants a major issue from day 1 of his campaign.
“. . . .[I]mmigration hardly came up at all in the first presidential debate of 2020. This is at least partially due to the fact that the Trump administration’s framing of its priorities has evolved over the past several months, as waves of protests challenging the power and brutality of American policing have swept the country. Without question, the anti-immigrant machinery marches on. . . . But . . . the Trump administration has increasingly and prominently centered purported threats posed by leftists, anarchists, and anti-fascists in its bid to hold onto power. This widening of the threat aperture is straight out of the authoritarian playbook, said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.”
KJ