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.

  • @Sanctus
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    72 hours ago

    Nativist? Is he attacking Native American tribes? Are they attacking him? Or is he just making white christian nationalist remarks again? Hmm…

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    156 hours ago

    My brain read that as “native attacks” and I got really excited

  • Funderpants
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    4 hours ago

    Nativist is certainly a more neutral word, but I think it undercuts the danger in this rhetoric and is not a common enough word for the general public to recognize.

    In short, this language helps Trump.

    • @macarthur_park
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      238 hours ago

      It’s also an unnecessary use of the passive voice. Did the nativist attacks fall out of the sky and land on the rally? No, Trump made them himself.

    • @captainlezbian
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      25 hours 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

    • @Eldritch
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      46 hours ago

      Yeah, because trump and his pasty white, doughy fascists sure ain’t native. They just represent the first thieves. Screaming theft as their numbers and influence wain.

  • @Letme
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    117 hours ago

    The only “natives” here are Mexicans and Native Americans

    • @RedAggroBest
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      Mexicans are native? The descendants of Spanish colonizers?

      • @Eldritch
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        166 hours ago

        Considering they’re often largely mixed mestizo heritage. That they can clearly point to. 💯%

  • @satanmat
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    48 hours ago

    People love what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don’t like the word Nazi, that’s all