Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

Neo-Nazi groups and the online far right are latching on to the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House in an effort to recruit new supporters and spread their extremism to broader audiences.

After the Republican national convention in July, where supporters waved “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” placards, it became clear that Trump’s xenophobia has become part of the Republican establishment. Upon his return to X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump released a stream of images targeting Vice-President Kamala Harris’s stance on the border and immigration.

Among them were memes inferring the Democrats will bring rapists into the country and a 2012 photo of men in Karachi, Pakistan, burning an American flag with the caption: “Meet your neighbors […] IF KAMALA WINS.”

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    2 months ago

    Then all your white asses can get on a boat and sail back to Ireland or Germany, or wherever your alien, immigrant ancestors came from and we can give this land back to its rightful owners, Native Americans. We are all immigrants/refugees, you dumb fucks.

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    Ffs! What do these fascists have to say and do for the billionaire-owned media to admit the obvious fact that they ARE a right wing extremist group??

    It’s not hyperbolic rhetoric: the Republican party is LITERALLY a fascist party and every bit as extreme as any of the other groups mentioned in the article!

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      So long as both sidesing brings in outrage clicks and views, they won’t.

      Pretending that the latest monstrous and insane thing out of Trump’s hate hole is somehow breaking news is the same shit they’ve been playing since… forever.

      Some of their own people (reporters) may get ground under the millstone, but that’s a price they’re willing to pay. Just the price of staying on top.

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    That headline implies that Trump wasn’t “neo-nazi and far right”. Which is decidedly wrong. It’s just sharing of hate topics among the like-minded.

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    These placards are top design lmao. Highlighting something with a darker color on a dark background is exactly the thing you’d imagine from them.

    "Meet your neighbors […] IF KAMALA WINS.”

    Meaning all these racist dummies holding these pictures? They won’t go anywhere anyways. Big sad.

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    They’re making up a story about a Venezuelan gang taking over an apartment complex in Colorado. It’s just like the “caravan” story from 2018.

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      2 months ago

      While expanding legal immigration, asylum protections and earned paths to citizenship and without mass deportation.

      Yeah they’re totally the same. /s