Immigrants Poisoning the Blood

Nov 13th 2023 The New York Times

No, Immigrants Aren’t ‘Poisoning the Blood of Our Country’

This is by Paul Krugman, and I do not really have anything to add to his arguments, after all he knows much more about the US economy than I do.

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I’ll just raise a few points that this piece brought to mind.

Here is a short quiz:

Question 1: Who said “poisoning the blood”:
Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler?
-The right answer is, of course, Trump, Hitler said it in German.

Question 2: Who used the term “vermin” to describe people he did not like:
Donald Trump or the Hutu paramilitary during the Rwandan genocide?
-Trump again, the Hutus used the term “cockroach”.

Question 3: Who described his political opposition as “enemies of the people”:
Donald Trump or Joseph Stalin?
-This was a trick question, the right answer is: both of them.