Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> repeating the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Springfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springfield</span></a> residents’ pets—which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> Party leaders picked up from a Facebook post [remarkably questionable source to base a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terror</span></a> campaign on]& <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> elevated Mon—fits into Trump’s record of portraying <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> broadly as threats. His attempts to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vilify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vilify</span></a> immigrants & people of color, including his campaign’s use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> tropes, align w/tactics that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/populist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>populist</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> leaders have used throughout <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>, scholars and historians say.</p>