The last time Trump and other xenophobes were talking about "caravans" of migrants coming to America's souther border, instead of calling it out for the racial-fear mongering that it was, they instead covered the subject in a way that gave Trump and his supporters legitimacy.
Leading up to the midterms Donald Trump and others ranted and raved about a caravan, once the midterms were over, the caravan went away. Both from Donald Trump, his acolytes, and the media stopped talking about the caravan.
Well, now that shutting down the government to get his wall hasn't worked, Donald Trump is trying the "caravan" bullshit again:
I hope that the media doesn't fall for it again, and instead covers it in a way.
Congressman Ted Lieu, responded to Trump's tweet reminding him that this xenophobic tactic didn't really work in the midterms:
The "caravan" shit only works for Trump with his white nationalist base.
This tweet comes just a few days after Trump tweeted this:
Judah Maccabeets of The Atlantic pointed out that Pat Buchanan is a white nationalist:
We knew that this whole time it has been Trump being a xenophobe speaking to his xenophobic base, nevertheless, him openly say that the wall is meant to keep the "brown hordes" out gives us the ammunition that the wall isn't about keeping America safe, it's about keeping it white.
And as the journalist Mehdi Hasan has pointed out, Trump once called Buchanan "a Hitler lover."
Either Trump has forgotten that he said that of Buchanan, or maybe he has just forgot that he himself is a "Hitler lover."
Trump's demands for a wall coincides with his push at making it harder for immigrants to be get asylum, and the "caravans" play as a tactic to try and gain more sympathy for his xenophobic ideology.
Thanks to Trump quoting Buchanan, we can officially say that the wall is about xenophobia than it is about American's safety.
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