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Jerrett Alexander's avatar

Great piece!

Victor Shammas's avatar

Thanks, Jerrett—glad you liked it!

Douglas Giles's avatar

Such paranoid fear of the Other is inextricable to being right wing and is perhaps a cause of it.

Victor Shammas's avatar

Yes, it’s high time we ask why there aren’t more “decent conservatives” who might take a stand against anti-immigrant rhetoric and nativist politics. In today’s political landscape across the West, most politicians on the right seem to be either openly nativist—or complicit in enabling those whose are.