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Jerrett Alexander's avatar

Great piece!

Victor Shammas's avatar

Thanks, Jerrett—glad you liked it!

Douglas Giles, PhD w/o BS'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.