Donald Trump’s leading opponents for the Republican presidential nomination are locked in a tragic, fateful battle to defeat Trump.

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western cowboy movie instead of for a shot at the White House. There’s a new sheriff in town and these cartels better buckle up, Florida’s governor said. Ron DeSantis, who defended his calls to shoot suspected drug smugglers at the border. (Think of Trump’s fantasies about shooting migrant legs

?)

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said: We are going to smoke the terrorists at our own southern border. He said he believes in the great replacement theory, a once fringe racist and anti

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Semitic conspiracy theory that has led to numerous shootings among white supremacists, such as the 2019 El Paso massacre against Mexican Americans.

They were comments from the former governor of South Carolina. Nikki Haley, who showed how deeply the Republican field has fallen into Trump’s extremist mindset. She supports the deportation of anyone who arrived in the country during President Biden’s term, including hundreds of thousands of people who were legally admitted

with a temporary protected status

. < You have to deport these people, she said.

At times she hinted that she had a capacity for self-control that set her apart from the others. She said that when it comes to people who have lived here for a long time, it can be important to find out whether they have paid taxes or otherwise contributed to the U.S. before deporting them. She rejected Trump’s idea for ideological screening of immigrants. But Haley is taking an increasingly combative tone on immigration, calling for closing the border and defunding sanctuary cities. It seems unlikely that Shell will have the courage to offer conservative voters a real alternative to the xenophobic bully.

Trump has promised to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. He is planning massive internment camps for immigrants, including people who have lived here for decades. His operation would separate millions of mixed-status families across the country and leave countless children of U.S. citizens, including infants, without their parents. It would make his family separation policy, which focused on recent arrivals at the border and was backed by national outrage, appear subdued.

Trump’s rivals were silent about the evil of these proposals,

including even

former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who had done that before

repeatedly

criticism of Trump’s dictatorial tendencies. But they have all expressed support for rounding up and removing people en masse. If a Republican wins in 2024, every mixed-status family in America could face the threat of divorce.

Eight years ago, Trump’s call

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to build a wall

what we had an acquired taste for was not yet standard

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rhetoric. leaders.

Now the party’s new normal also includes dreams of internment camps and bombing Mexico to stop the cartels. It includes calls to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right, and proposals to replace local and state officials to round up people for the camps.

The mainstreaming of extreme ideas would have been impossible without Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser responsible for some of the demagogues’ most restrictive policies, including strangling refugee entry and other legal routes into the country. It was Miller’s idea to use a public health rule to turn away asylum seekers during the pandemic, a policy Trump hopes to revive. Miller, who would most likely hold a top position in a future Trump White House, is said to have advocated in 2018 the use of American Predator drones to blow up boats full of unarmed migrants. He consistently supported Trump’s most sadistic instincts.

If Trump wins a second term,

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would most likely do that

bring back the Muslim ban, cancel protection for Afghans evacuated during the 2021 Taliban takeover and deport people

not only based on their immigration status, but also based on their immigration status

on their undesirable beliefs, such as support for the Palestinians. To ensure

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agenda could not be thwarted so often

like it was

in 2017-

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would install far-right lawyers and other loyalist officials in the government.

Trump’s challengers are all doing their best to keep immigration as low as possible, but…

no one knows the sewers of this subject better than Miller

a fanatical fanatic

who was

catered

by far-right provocateurs in his youth.nd

no one can play the tyrant better than Trump. His strategy

copy cat

Challengers who try to outperform the showman on his signature problem are doomed to failure.

Instead of,

It empowers him and fuels anti-immigrant hatred that endangers the lives of ethnic minorities across the country. Whatever his rivals promise to immigrants,

where hatred will lead voters

Trump, the

proven

despot,

wins with hate.

@jeanguerre