Step back for a second and marvel at the fact that this man is running for President of the United States on a major-party ticket and no one is batting an eye:
Pretty scary, if you ask me.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tom Tancredo
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Not unique to the U.S. There is a wave of nativism all over the developed world and the nationalist parties are winning sizable elections in Europe.
über scary.
Joseph - I agree with you, but I also know that many European countries have parliamentary systems. Tancredo's inclusion into the Republican Party gives him an instant legitimacy that I don't think is found anywhere else.
On the other hand, maybe that means anti-immigrant sentiment is actually shallower here than in Europe.
That's unsettling.
Makes you wonder, who exactly are "those that don't belong?"
Cassie - I think it can be adequately translated as "people who don't look white."
Tancredo's merely tapping into a long (and racist!) history of coded language used in the U.S... especially by Republican Presidential candidates since Barry Goldwater.
You should get your hands on a copy of Omi and Wynant's Racial Formation in the United States.
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