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Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With #Latino Voters
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Across the U.S., Latino #immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
#News #Trump #Immigration #USPolitics #Democrats #Politics #Biden
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-latino-trump-election-resentment-asylum
The politics of weaponizable false grievance & petty resentments.
If there's a psychological bias, Republican donors will fund a malign influence campaign that uses that false narrative.
In 2016, billionaires targeted Cuban immigrants to claim Democrats were "communists".
In 2024, billionaires targeted religious conservatives using lies about trans & asylum seekers.
Prejudice & stereotypes weaken democracy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_resentment
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Ask bigots how certain people harm their interests in any way & they sputter with indignation
The "just asking questions" tactic to instill doubt isn't supposed to be turned on them
They may cite very rare instances as if it's a huge problem, instead of an outlier
Most examples cited are false
Refocusing public sentiment on fake problems, instead of big ones like climate change & backsliding democracies; this is how disinformation works
Scapegoating is so useful to the moneyed