Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“‘State racism in the name of workers’ interests.’ That’s not the only response to the perennial question ’What is fascism?’ — but it is a compelling one. Now that mass deportation — starting with the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio — has joined sealed borders and ’drill, baby, drill’ as keystones of the Republican Party platform, it’s undeniable that the GOP’s much-ballyhooed effort to rebrand as the ’party of workers’ is inseparable from its assault on the rights and safety of immigrants. While the Trump campaign has run on protective tariffs, and some MAGA Republicans have praised the antitrust work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, the GOP’s core pitch remains simpler and more powerful: assuaging the fears of the ’American worker’ by ramping up terror against their ‘non- American’ peers.” [editor’s note: Every now and then I post something ridiculous from the “progressive” side; this has been one of them – SAT] (10/16/24)