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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

J.D. Vance’s Ugly Rants About Cat-Eating Haitians Just Got Even Worse

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In recent days, the Trump campaign, J.D. Vance and other prominent MAGA figures have pushed a repulsive falsehood: That Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets. Though this was decisively debunked, Vance issued a long, twisted rant on social media calling on supprters to keep pushing versions of the lie. This saga exposes something disturbing about MAGA dehumanization campaigns. We talked to Matthew Sheffield, a writer and podcaster at Flux and former member of the conservative movement who is now an illuminating critic of the right. He explains how this vile trope illustrates how MAGA propaganda really functions. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In recent days, prominent MAGA figures, including the Trump campaign, J.D. Vance and

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Senator Ted Cruz, have pushed a repulsive lie that Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets.

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Though this was decisively debunked, Vance actually

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called on Trump supporters to keep on pushing versions of the lie. We think this saga, and Vance's

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handling of it, exposes something deeply disturbing about how MAGA propaganda and dehumanization

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campaigns really function.

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