Trump moving to 'delete' people he doesn't like from govt data and images

[Retrograde]

2. So we're at the non-persons stage now?

Are we heading back to the non-existent time when all Americans were square-jawed Brits bravely marching westwards to conquer the continent while ignoring all the people who were there at the time? Like it or not, MAGAts, the US has always been a vibrant and often messy place with all sorts of people.

Some years ago I read a book on American history (whose name I've forgotten) written by a Latin American historian who pointed out that while the people of largely British ancestry were heading west, people were moving up from Mexico - he suggested that "tapestry", with all the various threads forming a strong fabric, was a better metaphor than "melting pot", with its connotations of destruction and assimilation.