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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Send her back" is where racism and authoritarianism meet
This viciousness isnt an accident. Its what Trumpism is really about.
By Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Jul 19, 2019, 8:30am EDT
Send her back! Send her back! Send her back!
Its hard not to feel chills when you watch the video of a Trump rally in North Carolina where this chant, directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, breaks out. The president, in the middle of a diatribe against Omar, pauses and looks out as the crowd chants not smiling, exactly, but doing nothing to calm the chanters or quiet their refrain.
That moment, the chant demanding that a naturalized citizen and member of Congress be sent back to her native Somalia booming through an audience of thousands, put on display the particular fusion of racism and authoritarianism that defines Trumpism as a political movement.
Send her back is not the first such chant to break out at Trump events; it follows lock her up, the ritual demand from Trump supporters that Hillary Clinton be sent to jail. Together, lock her up and send her back demonstrate beyond doubt that the law, in the Trumpian view, is a vehicle for punishing political enemies and minority groups.
In the Trumpian imagination, political opponents are not mere rivals but existential threats aligned with anti-American elements (read: immigrants and minorities) in a bid to undermine everything they cherish about America. As such, Clinton and Omar should not merely be defeated in an election; they must be crushed. If that requires abusing the power of the state and twisting the law to do so, so be it.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/19/20699231/send-her-back-racism-authoritarianism
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"Send her back" is where racism and authoritarianism meet (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2019
OP
enough
(13,256 posts)1. And sexism. NT
Merlot
(9,696 posts)2. Was just going to add that.
Funny how sexism just doesn't get as much notice.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)3. It's the ultimate tribalism...nt
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)4. It's the only campaign strategy he's got