Trump and his ilk, in their ruthless attempt to rewrite American mythology, want to cast the immigrant as the enemy. The outsider. The contaminant. The refugee is here to take what is yours. The threat.
Trumps army storms through our neighborhoods like wolves. Sewing fear, drumming up panic, uncertainty, and suspicion. They pit neighbor against neighbor while ICE, Border Patrol, and the National Guard descend on communities as instruments of intimidation. They are the rampaging nightmare extensions of Stephen Miller’s demonic cruelty and Donald Trump’s bottomless appetite for division.
Their real project isn’t security. It’s psychological warfare. They want to condition us to stop seeing ourselves as one nation and start seeing only fragments: red vs. blue, native-born vs. arrived, Black vs. white, citizen vs. other. They want permanent fracture. Permanent hostility. Permanent distraction so they can consolidate power and money all while elevating whiteness.
They seek to shred the complex histories that built this country and replace it with something borrowed from the darkest chapters of world history. A mythology rooted in exclusion, fear, and bloodline.
The Trumpian white supremacist lie must be confronted at every turn. Their machinery must tirelessly be exposed. Their perverse distortion of who we are must be defeated at the ballot box, in the courts, in the streets of public conscience.
Because immigrants didn’t weaken this nation. They built it. The people who were brought here against their will, or came here fleeing oppression, or came to find a dream. They all built the country we now inhabit. All of our faults and triumphs.
No oppressive regime of fear gets to erase our nation’s truth.
– Jason Duchin
via social media
November 28, 2025
via social media
November 28, 2025
Related Off-site Links:
Trump’s Thanksgiving Attack on Immigrants Likened to “Stuff You Hear Coming Out of White Nationalists” – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, November 28, 2025).
After D.C. Shooting, Trump Sends More Troops and Pledges Crackdown on Afghan Immigrants – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, November 27, 2025).
How We Treat Immigrants Is How We Treat God – Stephen Mattson (Sojourners, June 25, 2018).
See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”
• When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”
• “We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025
• The Gospel of Jesus Vs. Project 2025
• “A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”
• “A Case Study in How a Bully Behaves When He Can’t Rely on Fear”
See also:
• Protesting Trump’s “Dystopian” Immigration Policies (2025)
• Demanding Justice and Embodying Compassion for Separated Families (2019)
• 2000+ Take to the Streets of Minneapolis to Express Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees (2017)
• Historian: Trump's Immigration Ban is a “Shock Event” Orchestrated by Steve Bannon to Destabilize and Distract (2017)
• On Holocaust Remembrance Day, James Martin Labels as “Appalling” President Trump’s Plan to Demonize Immigrants (2017)
• On International Human Rights Day, Saying "No" to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda (2016)
• Rallying in Solidarity with the Refugees of Syria and the World (2015)
• Something to Think About – June 25, 2012
• Fasting, Praying, and Walking for Immigration Reform (2007)
• May Day 2007
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