History’s lessons on anti-immigrant extremism

Front page of The San Francisco Call from November 20, 1901, discussing the Chinese Exclusion Convention.  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Michael Luo for the New Yorker reminds us of the modern day parallels to the anti-Chinese campaign of the late 1800s and early 1900s.  “Like the 1870s, economic anxieties today are fueling overtly racist, populist appeals from politicians and propelling the MAGA movement.”

KJ