MAGA wanted plain-speak and got it
Donald Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot an immigrant and not lose any voters. You know he believes it. You know he wants to. Killing Venezuelans in small boats is just previews. Threats to execute Democrats are pure, Trumpish id. Listen to the howls of outrage from the right over six elected Democrats reminding service members that the Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) requires them to uphold the Constitution and not to follow orders that are clearly criminal.
Trump’s antipathy toward, well, pretty much everyone is well established in speech and in practice. He’s long ascribed to racehorse theory, even alluding to it in a 2020 presidential debate. “You could never have done the job we did,” Trump said to former Vice President Joe Biden. “You don’t have it in your blood.” Trump believes in the superiority of his genes. And thus, in the inferiority of others’.
Project 2025’s plans for closing the borders, eliminating asylum, and a program of mass deportation may be driven primarily by the authors’ desire to solidify political power in the hands of a shrinking white, Christian majority. But for Trump it is more visceral. As Trump’s mind and body have visibly declined, he’s simply more prone to let his beast out in public. He did late on Thanksgiving in a series of Truth Social posts. In the wake of the shootings of two National Guard members in D.C. this week by an immigrant, Trump is itching for some collective punishment.
Trump described immigrants and refugees as unproductive parasites and criminals, the source of high crime, urban decay, housing shortages, etc. And backward. Especially Somalis like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) of Minnesota.
Trump declared his intent to “remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States” (including the stray European), to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility,” and to “deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible” with Western (read: white) civilization. Trump declared a program of “REVERSE MIGRATION” (read: ethnic cleansing).
Trump has already declared his interest in remaking the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East” with a program to relocate the entire population. Say it: ethnic cleansing.
The United Nations advises that ethnic cleansing is not an independent crime under international law. Its 1993 report on genocide in the former Yugoslavia nevertheless defined ethnic cleansing as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area” and contrary to international law.
Whatever dry technical immigration reforms Project 2025 proposed, Trump just declared that his goal is a purge of the non-native born population through mass deportation to render the United States more ethnically homogeneous. Forget all that talk about enforcing immigration law. Trump means to enforce with extreme prejudice a whiter United States.
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had best look in the mirror and reconsider just what they are really engaged in. History will not be kind to them. If there is any justice left in this world, neither will juries.
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