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🗓️ 14 October 2024
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OA1077, Part 2 of Matt's MAGA is Fascist series.
The MAGA movement has just taken a hard turn to the extreme right with openly fascist messaging from Donald Trump about “migrant crime,” “occupied cities,” and “bad genes.” We take a moment to absorb this alarming reality before Matt also explains how US immigration policy has always been the leading edge of American protofascism--and why Adolf Hitler personally admired it--before taking a look at Trump’s actual 2024 immigration promises and what keeping them would mean for us all.
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, James Q. Whitman (2017)
“Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler,” Tori Otten The New Republic (3/11/24)
“Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps, and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans,” Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, The New York Times (11/23/2023)
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0:00.0 | So just a yes or no you still do not have a plan? I have concepts of a plan. That is a damning non-answer. I'm not trying to... |
0:15.0 | That is a damning non-answer. |
0:20.0 | I'm not trying to make it about myself, your honor. |
0:27.1 | I'm just trying to show his bias toward the defendant. |
0:30.5 | Just don't make it about yourself. Something simple as a crack pipe, a use crack pipe. |
0:37.0 | The rules were that you got to |
0:40.0 | going to fact check. Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
0:47.0 | This is episode one thousand seventy seven. |
0:49.0 | I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
0:50.0 | That over there is real life attorney. |
0:52.6 | Matt Cameron, how you doing Matt? |
0:54.1 | Goodintug. |
0:55.1 | I've been reading way too much once again about fascism, |
0:57.6 | especially about Germany. |
0:58.7 | So yeah, gonna blow up your spot before recording, |
1:01.5 | Matt said this is the topic he quote |
1:03.4 | feels most comfortable with. I'm not sure what you're not telling us Matt but I'm |
1:09.8 | a little worried about that. Well as it happens I don't know if your listeners remember this but I |
1:13.7 | actually do teach immigration policy at the graduate level and what we're talking about today |
1:17.6 | so you've just seen the fascism firsthand all the time got you yeah and I have a particular perspective here as somebody who's been inside the deportation system |
1:26.0 | for quite a while, but also I've been having certain anxieties about things since June 2015 |
1:32.3 | when Trump first came out within the first |
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