Michael Meeropol <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Dennis --- one clarification --- I think Trump has already promised the biggest mass detention in history for "illegals" --- not for leftists.
The Hill : Trump goes all in on Nazi rhetoric, and the media gives him another free pass <https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4310834-trump-goes-all-in-on-nazi-rhetoric-and-the-media-gives-him-another-free-pass/> "In any other America on any other timeline, a presidential candidate echoing the words of Adolf Hitler would soon be packing up for an early retirement. We clearly don’t live in any of those Americas, because former President Donald Trump <https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/>got yet another free pass from the press after echoing fascist slogans <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/trump-vermin-hitler.html> during a rally in New Hampshire last week. What should have been shocking and disqualifying conduct has instead become so mundane that Republican leaders don’t even bother to feign shock at the latest paean to far-right authoritarianism. Trump’s unhinged pledge to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” was a line barely modified from its original 1930s Nazi form <https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/11/12/trump-compares-political-foes-to-vermin-on-veterans-day-echoing-nazi-propaganda/?sh=76fc046c7229> . Trump’s rhetoric also settled on the same foe as its German counterpart: the political left. “The real threat is not from the radical right; the real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day,” he said. The solution is implied in the problem: When the “radical left” represents an existential threat to America itself, every response becomes legitimate — including disenfranchisement, dehumanization and even political violence. If the rest of the Republican Party has any deep concern with Trump’s extreme goals, they sure aren’t speaking up. Former Rep. Liz Cheney <https://thehill.com/people/liz-cheney/>blasted Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel for her silence, with Cheney going so far as to accuse McDaniel of “collaborating” with Trump’s effort to push “Nazi propaganda” <https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4307011-liz-cheney-rnc-chair-mcdaniel-collaborating-trump-nazi-propaganda/> on the American people. Cheney’s accusations are right, and they shouldn’t shock anyone — the GOP has for years been nothing more than a wholly-owned Trump subsidiary. What’s inexcusable is the media’s shrug-and-move-on response to the presidential front-runner’s increasingly full-throated fascist rhetoric..." NYT : Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html> If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them. “Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” said Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s former White House aide who was the chief architect of his border control efforts. In a public reference to his plans, Mr. Trump told a crowd in Iowa in September: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” The reference was to a 1954 campaign to round up and expel Mexican immigrants that was named for an ethnic slur — “Operation Wetback.” The constellation of Mr. Trump’s 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history. Millions of undocumented immigrants would be barred from the country or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here. Such a scale of planned removals would raise logistical, financial and diplomatic challenges and would be vigorously challenged in court. But there is no mistaking the breadth and ambition of the shift Mr. Trump is eyeing. In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked..." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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