The argument of the Trumpists (and the white Afrikaners) is: If a reactionary white person is asked to live in a society they don't get to dominate, if they are "forced" to accept a pluralizing public square and don't get to do as they please at all times, it's basically genocidal persecution.
Within weeks of coming to power, the white nationalist regime flew in Afrikaners as refugees from what the regime's leader called an anti-white "genocide" - while at the same time shutting down asylum and escalating their purge of non-white people they declared "alien enemies."
Not very subtle.
And that just perfectly captures the escalating siege mentality and reactionary grievance that defines and fuels MAGA. This is what drives the Right's anti-democratic radicalization - and I really don't know how they could possibly be clearer about what their political project is.
May 13, 2025 13:55