F'en trump and followers know the truth

[Miigwech]

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Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets

Jennifer Wingard, a University of Houston professor who has looked at rhetoric and immigrant communities, traces this sentiment at least to 1798, when the U.S. passed a series of laws — together known as the the Alien and Sedition Acts — that were aimed at making citizenship more difficult for immigrants and deportation easier for U.S. authorities to carry out.

"The legislation is actually constructed for the ability to remove immigrants who are saying things against the U.S. government," she says, explaining that these laws were passed in a tumultuous political climate.

"We were starting to see different political parties and different politicians arguing for different ways that the government should be run. And it just happened that politically, they could try to maintain and try to withhold the status quo by putting it on the backs of immigrants."

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741827580/go-back-where-you-came-from-the-long-rhetorical-roots-of-trump-s-racist-tweets

[elleng]

1. SOME likely do know the truth,

like s. miller, but I won't attribute knowledge of ANYTHING to trump (and many of his followers.)

[lambchopp59]

2. Agree, but with an asterisk

NPR article is not taking into account the Fox Noise / Hate Radio effect.
I witnessed my late father turn into an unrecognizably hateful, venom spitting creature in his declining years thanks to Fox Noise rhetoric. Many years ago, I knew he and my mother held some racist viewpoints, which with exposure to different cultures, foods and points of view had mellowed considerably until they retired, and dad got hooked on f'en Fox Noise. He became the person that you couldn't take anywhere.
My mother continually admonished him for these hateful statements, especially when he would start ranting about us "no-good liberal layabouts"-- Oh, brother did my mother take him to the proverbial woodshed with those rants. Reminders from her that a good portion of the rather elegant retirement lifestyle they enjoyed were on our expense were enough to stop that confabulation cold.
These racist rants were not revived via any sort of "grassroots anger", they're an effect of years of Rush Limbaugh and Fox Noise fearmongering.
Had the Reagan administration never repealed the fairness doctrine,
we would not have a venom spitting racist child in the White House now.