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COMMENT: On Fri­day, June 26, Dave explored the his­to­ry of fas­cist “anti-immi­grant xeno­pho­bia,” as well as the dynam­ic of afford­ing work­ing class whites what W.E.B. Dubois called” the psy­cho­log­i­cal wages of white­ness.”

For­mer Trump Bor­der Con­trol chief Gre­go­ry Bovi­no recent­ly attend­ed a “rem­i­gra­tion” con­fer­ence, net­work­ing with fas­cists and reac­tionar­ies from Europe. Bovi­no cast him­self in a polit­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal mode with the likes of Wehrma­cht World War II Gen­er­al Erwin Rom­mel.

In FTR#864 (record­ed in Sep­tem­ber of 2015), Dave inter­viewed Peter Lev­en­da (author of The Hitler Lega­cy). An excerpt from that inter­view details how anti-immi­grant xeno­pho­bia has long been a fea­ture of fas­cism, tar­get­ing and scape­goat­ing “out­siders” as respon­si­ble for eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al “degra­da­tion” of soci­ety.

Eval­u­at­ing polls claim­ing that work­ing-class whites are view­ing Trump with dis­fa­vor, the talk notes a long his­to­ry of involv­ing them in polic­ing of non-whites and con­comi­tant inclu­sion with wealthy white elites, whose eco­nom­ic inter­ests clash with those of MAGA work­ers.

Top­ics of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: Bovino’s atten­dance at the Nation­al War Col­lege; Bovino’s invok­ing of high­ly inac­cu­rate demo­graph­ic infor­ma­tion claim­ing that there were 100 mil­lion ille­gal immi­grants in the U.S. (tak­en from a Bear Stearns invest­ment bank doc­u­ment); Bovino’s view of Europe and the U.S. face a com­mon “ene­my” in ille­gal immi­grants from the devel­op­ing world; Bovino’s claim that the U.S. pop­u­la­tion is 420 mil­lion; Bovino’s view that Euro­peans should embrace wider gun own­er­ship; The his­to­ry of U.S. tar­get­ing “immi­grants” for dis­crim­i­na­tion (Irish, Ital­ian and Jew­ish immi­grants hav­ing been rel­a­tive­ly recent tar­gets); “Psy­cho-lin­guis­tic fas­cism” char­ac­ter­iz­ing refugees as “migrants” and out­right fas­cists as “con­ser­v­a­tives;” Pres­i­dent Andrew Johnson’s prompt undo­ing of post-Civ­il War recon­struc­tion; Johnson’s mobi­liza­tion of white racism to block cross-racial work­ing class sol­i­dar­i­ty; Richard Nixon’s use of inflam­ma­to­ry rhetoric to mobi­lize white-work­ing class reac­tion; The his­to­ry of vio­lent vig­i­lan­tism by work­ing-class whites to real­ize and sus­tain the class inter­ests of eco­nom­ic elites.