President Trump’s re-election campaign has harnessed Facebook advertising to push the idea of an “invasion” at the southern border, amplifying the fear-inducing language about immigrants that he has also voiced at campaign rallies and on Twitter. Since January, Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on Facebook […] Read more »
Can Trump’s Words Incite Violence?
This installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast deals with two mass shootings this weekend, one of which was explicitly tied to white nationalist terrorism. On Saturday, a young white man targeted immigrants and killed at least 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in an attack being investigated […] Read more »
Most Americans thought Trump encouraged white supremacists — even before El Paso
A mass shooting this weekend in El Paso has prompted comparisons between the shooter’s apparently racist motives of preventing a “Hispanic invasion,” according to a manifesto authorities think he may have posted, and President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Many are pointing to the president’s words and actions for encouraging the same […] Read more »
The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism
Like a number of recent mass shootings, the one in El Paso on Saturday came with a manifesto. … In the El Paso manifesto, the anti-immigrant rhetoric is thoroughly ensconced in other white power ideas. To be sure, mass attackers today have a new set of coded phrases, such as […] Read more »
There are no lone wolves
There are no lone wolves. A mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday was allegedly perpetrated by a young, white male, according to police, who appears to have posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto online minutes before the attack, declaring the need to fight the “Hispanic invasion of […] Read more »
Use that word!
There has been a lot of discussion of the conference on “national conservatism” that was held last month. Many of the commentators have said that nationalism is something that has existed in other nations, but not in the United States. Part of the idea behind this is that America has […] Read more »