Nativism or Nihilism?

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🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The president’s new web advertisement featuring an illegal immigrant who is also an unrepentant murderer drives home the themes he’s been pushing as his closing argument for 2018. Along with moving troops to the border and flirting with an executive order challenging birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment, the president seems set on whipping up nativist sentiment. Or is he? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast.
0:25.0	Today is the 1st of November 2018, Thursday.
0:29.6	I'm John Pajor, the editor of commentary with me as always.
0:32.5	No, we're Rothman or Associate Editor.
0:34.0	Hi, Noah.
0:34.5	Hi, John.
0:35.4	A Greenwald Senior Editor.
0:36.7	Hi, Abe.
0:37.4	Hi, John.
0:38.0	And Senior writer, Sara Bomari.
0:39.5	Hi, Sara.
0:40.3	Hi, John.
0:42.0	So we spent most of the last podcast
0:47.3	talking about the aftermath of the horrific shooting
0:51.2	in Pittsburgh.
0:52.4	And since then, we've seen funerals.
0:56.2	We've had the controversy over the president's trip to Pittsburgh
1:00.8	and the protests there largely staged
1:05.5	by a far left group of pro-BDS Jews, if not now,
1:13.9	as well as some others.
1:17.0	So I am inclined to discount the meaning of the protests
1:24.0	as some sort of emotional, effusive, emotional reaction
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