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History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

Michael Luo The New Yorker
The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.

Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening

Robert McCoy The New Republic
Trump sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality. He was whoever they wanted him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters projected their wishes onto his candidacy, regardless of his stated policy program

Hopping Across the Line

John Washington The New York Review
In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers.

MAGA Civil War Erupts

Emily Brooks and Julia Shapero The Hill
A war between High Tech Corporate leaders and the anti-immigrant MAGA base.

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A Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations

David Bacon Jacobin
The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and strategic thinking — and it can help immigrant workers and communities confront Donald Trump’s promised wave of repr

Trump Does Not Have Mandate

Peter Dreier Talking Points Memo
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.
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