For comparison, The New Republic ran this headline:

Trump’s Rally Just Went Full Nazi With Bloodthirsty Immigration Threat

Donald Trump drilled down on his racist, xenophobic vitriol during a rally.

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    2 months ago

    Did y’all not get taught about the nativism movement in school? My catholic school taught us about the know nothings and other nativists alongside the kkk

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        2 months ago

        Ok, well down here nativism is a term deeply tied to an era of extreme anti immigrant sentiment, violent racism, and just generally a whole lot of bad behavior from our country folk.

        Calling something nativist is like calling something fascist. It’s using their own term from a different era because it’s developed such a bad association thanks to their bad behavior and ideas.