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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:53:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   Nigel Farage, who played a leading role in coaxing UK voters to Brexit by fanning flames of xenophobia and hysteria about immigration, says he's going return to political life in Britain to make its next election about immigration.

   Republicans in the US say they will cede nothing to Biden because they want to attack him with hysteria about immigration.

   Stirring hostility to and fear of immigrants is the go-to tactic of the political right.

   #xenophobia #immigrants
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   https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/17/farage-plans-return-to-help-reform-uk-make-election-about-immigration

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:53:05 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “Classic Trump: say something crazy outrageous, neo-Nazi-like and it gets headlines, creates outrage.

     So wait a little. Then say it again, no one notices, no coverage, and it gets normalized and mainstreamed.

     Let’s be clear: migrants ‘poisoning the blood’ is Hitler rhetoric.”

     ~ Mehdi Hasan

     #xenophobia #immigrants #Trump #fascism #Hitler
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:53:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Donald Trump, just weeks after using the fascist terminology 'vermin' to describe sections of American society he dislikes, again declared at a New Hampshire rally that immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'" …

     “They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world.

     “They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

     ~ Chris Michael

     #xenophobia #immigrants #Trump
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     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/16/trump-immigrants-new-hampshire-rally

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:53:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     It's the tactic they always use, in one place after another across the planet, to try to move a culture to the right, to prepare the way for a strongman to appear with bogus promises of solving folks' problems, especially the problem of those fearsome immigrants said to be swamping this and that nation.

     Sadly, this tactic is increasingly successful, because too many people in too many places are ready to be energized by hatred of the other, the immigrant.

     #xenophobia #immigrants #Farage
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