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While speaking on the final night of the GOP midterm convention, Vice President JD Vance said the country was āpoorerā and ādirtierā before President Donald Trump was reelected for a second term.
āWe were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer, and less safe and less prosperous,ā Vance said on the final day of the two-day convention in Dallas, Texas.
His sentiment appeared to reflect the administrationās efforts to combat rising immigration rates in the U.S., a key campaign point during the 2024 election. Vance himself promoted unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in September 2024, spreading misinformation about the community abducting and eating pets.
Fascism has taken on a new form when it comes to race. I think people focus too heavily on the historical examples of fascism in an attempt to āreasonā it as an ideology.
The racial structures of fascism are there to uphold white supremacy, patriarchy, and class. The contradiction is useful for the fascist. It is not a flaw or something that will cause conflict to other fascist. JD vanceās wife being Indian is seen as āusefulā. Nothing more. Thatās primarily how fascism operates. Itās why the definition of āAryanā changed throughout place and time under Nazi rule. Itās the reason why who is considered āWhiteā didnāt even include Germans when Benjamin Franklin used was using the term.