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marmar

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Sat Jun 6, 2015, 11:46 AM Jun 2015

Ann Coulter: a Jackboot in Guccis [View all]



Like European Fascists, Right-Wing US Pundits Oppose All Immigration
Ann Coulter: a Jackboot in Guccis

by BEN NORTON


The mainstream US Right long ago crossed the point from right-wing to extreme far-right. Mainstream conservatives now oppose not just undocumented immigration, but immigration overall.

Popular right-wing US pundits like Ann Coulter are now saying all immigrants are bad. This is a fundamental tenet of fascist ideology. The US Right is moving toward fascism. Not just “fascism” as in the derogatory term some leftists are wont to sling at reactionaries—literal fascism.

Point 8 of the Nazi party’s program was

Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.


Italy’s neo-facist CasaPound party, which openly admires Mussolini and the Italian fascists, insists “We want to stop it (immigration).”

CasaPound is joined by a wave of neo-fascist parties in Europe that, like Coulter, openly oppose immigration of Muslims and people of color, regardless of legal status. ......................(more)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/05/ann-coulter-a-jackboot-in-guccis/




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