Authoritarianism Expert Spots Trump Line Showing Who He'll Target After Immigrants
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"They’re not going to stop with immigrants," said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who explained the calculated reason behind Trump's "poisoning the blood" rhetoric.
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat said there’s a “very precise purpose” for Donald Trump’s ramping up of his divisive and “fascist rhetoric,” which came under scrutiny once again at the weekend after the former president at a New Hampshire rally said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The Trump campaign “has made it very clear what they want to do to immigrants,” Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” told CNN’s Jim Acosta.
She cited reported planned “mass deportations, mass detentions, likely abuses and violence in those operations” if Trump wins back the White House in 2024.
Trump’s language dehumanizes immigrants and “is a way to get Americans prepared now to accept these repressions later on,” she said. “That’s what’s so terrible and that’s also another thing that’s so fascist about this.”
Ben-Ghiat also suggested immigrants won’t be the only ones targeted.
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