Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread

[Derleth]

@asahi

It basically means implementing a radical fiscal agenda that would take the country back to the 1920s.

It would also mean taking our immigration laws back to the 1920s:

@Derleth

Trump’s learned how to dog-whistle, and he’s whistling right to the White Nationalists:

@Donald Trump

We’ve admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015. Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. So true. But we now have an obligation to them and to their children to control future immigration as we are following, if you think, previous immigration waves…
To keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms. To select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
We take anybody. Come on in, anybody. Just come on in. Not anymore.

So, what’s the significance of 1965? That’s when we modified our immigration laws to no longer fear a brown planet: We passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which repealed the Emergency Quota Act (as modified in 1924), destroying the racial quota system that act imposed on immigration. Make no mistake: The Emergency Quota Act was a White Nationalist act, in that it aimed to preserve a White Nation, explicitly capping every race other than White European at very low levels.

MediaMatters has the evidence that the message is getting through:

@Richard B. Spencer

Trump is returning to the ideas of the 1924 Immigration Act.

Immigrants will reflect the racial makeup of the country.#AmericaFirst

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1965 will be repealed.

1924 will be revived. #TrumpAZ

Richard B. Spencer is the founder of the alt-right movement.
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The problem is that all of this will be blamed on Trump. Trump isn’t the reason the alt-right is associated with the GOP to begin with. Trump isn’t the reason the “Protect Our Border” people vote Republican. Trump didn’t win sufficient votes in the GOP primary to become the GOP’s candidate because the GOP is the wrong place for him to peddle this shit.

Trump found an audience for what he’s selling, and we need to look long and hard at why the GOP contains that audience.