#politicsofhate — Public Fediverse posts

"Mercy shouldn’t be controversial, but in the current insanity, it is."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #PoliticsofHate #mercy #BishopBudde
/14

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/we-can-fight-off-trumps-onslaught

"Underneath Trump’s Shock and Awe that is doing grave damage to the Constitution and Trump’s marginalized targets, there’s a Slop and Ouch that targets everyone this side of his billionaire friends. And that needs to remain visible, too."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/11

"An ideology that places grievance above all else — an ideology that is willing to hurt America if that’s what it takes to reverse the successes of the Biden Administration — is an ideology guaranteed to impose pain far beyond those targeted for spectacle and cruelty."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/10

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/26/trumps-slop-and-ouch-first-week/

"Fear of deportation has led to a sharp drop in farm worker attendance across California's agricultural heartland, leaving crops unharvested—and this is a direct result of President Trump's announced immigration crackdown.

The California nonprofit news site CalMatters reports farmworkers are not showing up to harvest crops."

~ David Martin Davies writing on Jan. 24

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/9

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2025-01-24/texas-matters-how-mass-deportations-impact-texas-agriculture

"Trump is doing all of this to the exclusion of taking any action whatsoever that would fulfill his reiterated campaign promise of lowering costs. We sat here and – for months, or maybe years – listened to Trump talk about grocery prices and rent prices and housing prices and the price of eggs."

~ Brian Tyler Cohen

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/8

https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trumps-intentional-avalanche-of-garbage

And in the vein of breaking institutions, rules, the law itself — and jubilantly so (see the preceding postings in the thread) — there's Elon Musk engaging in a flagrant, illegal vote-buying scheme on behalf of Trump.

Obviously what they want to do and what gives their puppetmaster Putin great delight is to sh-t all over democratic norms to show that democracy means nothing at all.

#Trump #ElonMusk #PoliticsofHate #fascism
/7

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397

"Trump is closing his argument with his base by reminding them how much they are like him, that 'we' all feel the same way he does about immigrants and Blacks and women and the disabled and everyone who is not just like they are, which is white and Christian followers of Donald Trump."

Underscore "white and Christian": over half of white Christians have voted for Trump twice and will do so again. White Christian adults….

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/6

"All this stuff is far outside the bounds of political discourse in this country, & pundits have pointed out time and again that his MAGA base has come to expect it of Trump. In fact, they love him for it. ...

This stuff is way more dangerous than it seems. Adolf Hitler talked about what 'we' know about the Jews, how 'we' need them out of our country, how 'we' know about their greed and their otherness, their non-Christianity, their Jewishness."

#Trump #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/5

"from calling Mexican immigrants 'criminals and rapists' to saying 'there are good people on both sides' of a demonstration by Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists in Charlottesville, to calling the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 'a day of love' in a speech at a rally on Thursday, to comparing those arrested for crimes at the Capitol to 'the Japanese during Second World War, frankly. They were held, too.'”

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/4

It's about transgression, he thinks. It's about inviting adults who claim to be outraged at being overlooked on behalf of "others," especially immigrants, to throw away the barriers and guardrails and allow themselves to show the very worst side of themselves. With glee.

"Trump has been bringing his MAGA base along with him as he has crossed one boundary after another,"

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/3

Let me rephrase that: Trump got a crowd of ADULT Americans, a large percentage of whom we know from solid sources are white Christians, chanting the word "sh-t" jubilantly and applying it to the vice-president.

He then told a lewd story about Arnold Palmer to the same crowd, causing those same adults to guffaw with delight.

Why is he behaving this way, Truscott asks?

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/2

Lucian K. Truscott asks a good question: why is Donald Trump ratcheting up the profane language now as he "turns the hate knob to 11" in his campaign? As Truscott notes, Friday, he used the word "sh-t" to describe the vice-president, Kamala Harris. Then he got his crowd jubilantly chanting that word the next day in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/1

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-turns-the-hate-knob-to-11

"They want him to violate every one of the Ten Commandments in public view. ...

Nothing you tell a convinced Trump voter about Trump’s qualifications, problems or likely actions matters to them. In fact, you are only convincing them more. Everything you fear and loathe about Trump is a recommendation to them."

And (my footnote), they may very well get their way, this election cycle.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/27

"For nearly a decade, the American mainstream has failed over and over again to understand what Donald Trump is, what he means, how he works. ...

Many of Trump’s voters know exactly what he is. They know he’s going to blow the status quo to smithereens and they want him to. They want him to be incompetent, they want him to be senile, they want him to be cruel."

~ Timothy Burke

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/26

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/trump-essentials-1

Who will do all these things for us when we vent our rage, drunk with the elation of hurting other people — and when we hurt ourselves badly in the process?

Maybe we should think about this before we get drunk on hate.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/24

For that matter, who will provide medical care for us? A large percentage of my doctors and my dentist, too, are all foreign-born immigrants, highly skilled people whose services we sorely need — just as we need the hard labor of those folks cleaning our houses, doing our garden work and yard work, repairing our streets, putting roofs on our houses, doing tree work.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/23

And as we walk on after those conversations take place, I always ask myself, Who do they think will tend these gardens and clean these houses when they have all those workers rounded up and deported? Who will repair our streets? Who will put new roofs on our houses? Who will take down trees and climb up and cut out diseased limbs in trees?

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/22

As we walk past her house daily, we often see crews of gardeners working in her beautiful gardens. They are ALL Hispanic men. Or we see a car full of Hispanic women parking, the women getting out of the car with cleaning supplies to go into the huge mansion and clean it.

My spouse makes a point always of stopping to talk to these folks in Spanish, greeting them, talking about the weather, asking how they are.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/21

It would affect US. It would seriously affect the very people jubilant about the idea of deporting millions of Americans.

I think about this as my husband and I walk daily past the house of an extremely rich Republican neighbor who had Trump signs in front of her house in 2016 and 2020, though I see none this year. Maybe they're still to come.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/20

And in intoxicating themselves with that unholy elation, they blind themselves to the harm that they always do to THEMSELVES by venting hatred against targeted minority groups.

Heather Souvaine Horn (see /16) notes that rounding up and deporting millions of immigrants would have devastating effects on the US food supply.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/19

Who will do all their work when they round up the immigrants and deport them? I keep asking myself. Have they really thought through what they're proposing to do to THEMSELVES as they vent their hate for a targeted minority community?

This is the problem with bigotry and hate: it makes people drunk, as it were, drunk with elation at finally being able to show open contempt for people they despise.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/18

"But in the past week, reporters have increasingly been looking into the ways that Trump-proposed policies could have far-reaching effects on another big part of the country: its food supply.

Trump’s anti-immigration policy is the most obvious example. 'The role of immigrants in the American food system is difficult to overstate,' Frida Garza and Ayurella Horn-Muller write for Grist and El País."

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/17

"Mass deportations, using a 151-year-old law as a national abortion ban, privatizing the National Weather Service, sending the military after the 'radical left': These are some of the policies, proposed by Trump or his supporters, that have made headlines in recent months."

~ Heather Souvaine Horn

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/16

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=a0160709701140704575d499c997b6ca.1006&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"CBS also interviewed Kim Wyman, a top election official at the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA), who said that she’s received threats like 'we’re going to hang you' and 'I hope somebody puts a bullet in your head.'”

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/15

"With less than a month to go before the 2024 election, fear among election workers is palpable. Statistics show that threats to local election officials are surging, up 73 percent since the same time in 2022."

~ Kim Wehle

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/going-to-hang-you-threats-to-election-officials-democracy

"Three out of four election officials say that threats to them have increased; in some states, the danger will be just as bad the day after the election as it was the day before, or maybe even worse."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/13

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/a-citizens-guide-to-defending-democracy

"I’ll also add a dollop of greed, hatred of Impossible burgers, and hypocrisy. The gumbo soup that houses all of them is known as fascism. ...

In America, fascism has gone mainstream thanks to Donald Trump…."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/9

"After a decade, Democrats and corporate media have finally started to use the correct language to describe the ideology of a twice-impeached, criminal rapist and his MAGA cult. ...

MAGA has three major ingredients, which include White Supremacy, Christian Nationalism, and Authoritarianism."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/8

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/democrats-are-finally-using-the-f

"He is not only unhinged in his narcissistic self-obsessions, a problem which itself renders him unfit for office; he is also an aspiring dictator who demands that all political life centers on him. He identifies his fellow Americans as 'enemies' because they are of a different race, national origin, or political view. And he has threatened to use the powerful machinery of the state and its military forces to inflict brutality on those fellow citizens."

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofHate
/7

"I long resisted the use of the word fascist to describe Trump. But almost a year ago, I came to agree with Milley that Trump is through-and-through a fascist."

~ Tom Nichols

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/6

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/the-generals-warning/680279/

"The fantasy of barbarians in our cities violating basic social norms serves to gird the Trump-Vance story that legal, constitutional government is helpless and that only an angry mob backed by a new regime could get things done.

It is worth knowing, in this connection, that the first major action of Hitler's SS was the forced deportation of migrants."

Snyder also dissects Trump's out-in-the-open antisemitism.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/5

"It is fascist to start a political campaign from the choice of an enemy (this is the definition of politics by the most talented Nazi thinker, Carl Schmitt). It is fascist to replace reason with emotion, to tell big lies ('create stories,' as Vance says) that appeal to a sense of vulnerability and exploit a feeling of difference."

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/4

But:

"The reason why we keep alive the memory of Nazi crimes is not because it could never happen here, but because something similar can always happen anywhere. That memory has to include the details of history, or else we will not recognize the dangers.

'Never again' is something that you work for, not something that you inherit."

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/3

In a powerful essay written with his usual lucidity, Timothy Snyder comments on Trump's "Hitlerian month" and the continued refusal of many American commentators to acknowledge the clear parallels between what Trump and Vance are doing and saying what Hitler did and said.

As Snyder notes, the myth of American exceptionalism forces us to pretend it can't happen to us, the good guys.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/2

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hitlerian-month

People focus on Hitler and Nazi leaders and the atrocious lethal lies they told to justify the mass murder of Jews.

But they should focus also on the willingness of very many people to believe those lies, to cheer and assist as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and sent to their deaths.

The problem is never just the Hitlers, the Nazis. The problem is us, many of us — our propensity to stigmatize and hate.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/1

"In his decade as the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump has been steadily reshaping the Southern Strategy into something different than it was. It’s still about fear and resentment, but the relative importance of anti-Black resentment and anti-immigrant resentment has flipped. And there’s good reason to believe the new strategy will endure well after Trump departs."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
/2

“'The whole secret to politics,' Nixon aide Kevin Phillips, the architect of the 'Southern Strategy,' told author Gary Wills in 1968, is 'who hates who.' But hatred is not merely organic; while it arises on its own, it can also be cultivated and directed."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
/1

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-new-southern-strategy

"What Higgins wrote is despicable, but he got permission to write it from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance."

~ Mary Trump

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/6

https://www.marytrump.org/p/a-very-principled-man

#ExpelHiggins

~ Scott Dworkin

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/5

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/expel-clay-higgins-for-his-racist

"The Republican party is always going to struggle to disassociate itself from cranks and racists. But it becomes futile even to try when a racist crank sits atop the party as god-emperor."

~ Andrew Egger

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-walked-so-clay-higgins-could

"Higgins has styled himself a 'Cajun John Wayne,' which again is code for 'willing to commit violence in the name of white justice.' The GOP is now openly racist and proud of it, but the hate and violence was always just on simmer, ready to boil over as soon as the heat could be turned back up by a demagogue like Trump."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/3

"As the Washington Post reported, back in 2016 Higgins, the 'brash, outspoken captain of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office' in Louisiana, resigned after appearing in a video calling a group of predominantly black gang members 'animals,' 'thugs' and 'heathens.'

Higgins’s behavior is part of a long pattern of using his office to promote racism, violence and lies."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

Kuo notes:

"Higgins also has a telling, disturbing past in law enforcement, having had to resign twice from different police forces. The first was from the Opelousas police force in 2007 after assaulting an unarmed Black man and lying about it. ….

The second incident bears remarkable similarity to his tweet yesterday that created a political storm."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

Jay Kuo comments on the vile racist tweet Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins made yesterday attacking Haitian immigrants and telling them to get "their ass out of our country before January 20th.”Higgins later deleted the tweet. A screenshot of it is in Kuo's posting.

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/1

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/there-is-no-bottom

As Greg Sargent reports, Trump chose to pour out hate yesterday in Pennsylvania, as he pointed to the community of Charleroi, claiming Haitians have taken it over and are taking jobs from locals.

Charleroi Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning responds:

“There’s what the former president is saying, and then there’s easily observable reality.”

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/186331/trump-hateful-rally-pennsylvania-debunked-town-leader

As Greg Sargent reports, Trump chose to pour out hate yesterday in Pennsylvania, as he pointed to the community of Charleroi, claiming Haitians have taken it over and are taking jobs from locals.

Charleroi Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning responds:

“There’s what the former president is saying, and then there’s easily observable reality.”

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/186331/trump-hateful-rally-pennsylvania-debunked-town-leader

As Greg Sargent reports, Trump chose to pour out hate yesterday in Pennsylvania, as he pointed to the community of Charleroi, claiming Haitians have taken it over and are taking jobs from locals.

Charleroi Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning responds:

“There’s what the former president is saying, and then there’s easily observable reality.”

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/186331/trump-hateful-rally-pennsylvania-debunked-town-leader

As Greg Sargent reports, Trump chose to pour out hate yesterday in Pennsylvania, as he pointed to the community of Charleroi, claiming Haitians have taken it over and are taking jobs from locals.

Charleroi Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning responds:

“There’s what the former president is saying, and then there’s easily observable reality.”

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/186331/trump-hateful-rally-pennsylvania-debunked-town-leader

As Greg Sargent reports, Trump chose to pour out hate yesterday in Pennsylvania, as he pointed to the community of Charleroi, claiming Haitians have taken it over and are taking jobs from locals.

Charleroi Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning responds:

“There’s what the former president is saying, and then there’s easily observable reality.”

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis
/6

https://newrepublic.com/article/186331/trump-hateful-rally-pennsylvania-debunked-town-leader

"Mike Godwin himself has said it’s fine to use the comparison when it comes to Trump:

'By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.'"

~ Greg Dworkin

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #mobs #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #cruelty #CrueltyIsthePoint #Nazis #Godwin
/5

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/25/2272666/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Hacked-documents-political-hacks-and-the-state-of-the-race