"Donald Trump, Nayib Bukele, and Kristi Noem love to make fascist spectacle. They did it with the video showing the arrival of hundreds of people Trump sent to Bukele's concentration camp. Noem did it with her visit to the camp. And they did it with the planned theater yesterday, including the staged hot mic moment where Trump told Bukele he wanted to send "homegrowns" to the concentration camp at CECOT. They do it because fascist spectacle inspires fear. They do it"
"because fascist spectacle goes viral, including with the help of data mules who purport to oppose its content. They do it because it short circuits rational thought, overwhelming such rational thought with emotion. The effect of yesterday's fascist spectacle led virtually everyone to focus on a detail that won't help the immediate fight before us - Trump's interest in deporting "homegrowns," an interest he has stated openly over and over,"
Donald Trump, Nayib Bukele, and Kristi Noem staged overtly fascist spectacle by publicizing the arrival of hundreds sent to Bukele's concentration camp and by visiting or promoting that camp. The staged hot-mic moment included Trump's remark that he wanted to send 'homegrowns' to the concentration camp at CECOT. Fascist spectacle inspires fear, spreads virally, and short-circuits rational thought through emotional overload and coordinated amplification by data mules. The spectacle focused attention on deporting 'homegrowns' instead of on legal and humanitarian details that could aid Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The DOJ argued that the MS-13 FTO designation rendered Abrego Garcia ineligible for a 2019 withholding of removal, undermining an earlier immigration judge's refusal to return him to El Salvador.
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