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Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 days ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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Here’s one reason Donald Trump seems perennially in a bad mood: he has probably figured out that the America he fantasizes about is out of his reach.

However many immigrants he manages to deport or prevent from entering the country, the white paradise he is promising his Maga base, free of Somalis, Mexican “rapists” and generally people from “shithole countries” – closer in hue to the America where he was born – is not his to offer.

He can, however, do a lot of damage. By doing his best to make the US unbearable both to foreigners and, more generally, people from ethnicities that do not mesh with his picture of the American family, Trump is not Making America Great Again. He is ensuring America will be smaller, older, weaker and easier to push around.

Nothing Trump does to stop immigration can change this trajectory. Because the non-Hispanic white population will keep on shrinking regardless, the Census Bureau projects that it will lose 3.6 million people over the next five years, almost 11 million in the decade after that and more than 14 million in the subsequent one.

And that means that if Trump and his ethnonationalist sidekick Stephen Miller achieve their goal of cutting future immigration down to nothing, the US population will shrink pretty sharply. It will be 6% smaller by mid-century, 10% smaller by 2060 and one-third smaller in 2100. The president may not fully realize this – his grasp of economics has proven tenuous – the demographic squeeze would come at a substantial cost.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Be careful with this statement, there's two very different ways this could be interpreted. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're alluding to the end of WWII and how Hitler chose to leave it, but it could also be interpreted to refer to the start of WWII.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 days ago

Nah, I was referring to "he has probably figured out that the America he fantasizes about is out of his reach.", so no misinterpretations.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The start of World War II was the invasion of Poland. Don't freaking kid yourself, if they'd stayed in their borders no one would have stopped them from killing all the Jews and Romanian and disabled people they wanted to.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Entirely not the point.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I didn't say it was the point, I was just correcting the factual inaccuracies in your comment.

-Also I think it is just dangerously naive to act like other nations swooped in to stop the crimes he was committing against his people. Now of all times its important we not perpetuate that myth.