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A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the US. Mutt Nation. What the hell does "pure" or "poisoned" blood mean here?
Look up mud people
This country, possibly your grandfathers or great-grandfathers (and in many cases grandmothes), went to war against Nazis, as did most of the world. There were a few fringe sympathizers, but they weren't representative of "the greatest generation."
This shit is a new Nazi wave, and it's not a continuation of something. It's a flare-up of an old ugly root. All over the world these shits are gaining ground. New media empowers them.
The idea that Nazi sympathisers were a fringe group is an vast oversimplification of history. Yes, America chose to fight against the Nazis, but there were huge racist/eugenist movements at the time that included high-ranking politicians and military personnel. Look up the America First movement for just one example.
I first learned about this from the podcast ULTRA. I kept having to check their sources and do further research, because what they said sounded so wild that I felt I should have already known it. Instead it's just another example of people not wanting to teach their uncomfortable history like the Tulsa race massacre, Indian residential schools in the US and Canada, the Tuskegee syphilis study, etc, etc, etc.
Also, I'd suggest you learn about the history of Nazi Germay. The Nazis weren't this huge supermajority of the German population, they just had people in the right positions, took power by force, and the populace went along with it. It's not hard to see parallels with a lot of events in US history where if things went just a bit different the USA could have become a racist, authoritarian state.