MAGA has always made it very clear what it intended to do under Project 2025. And MAGA leaders have bombarded the general populace with several issues to try to drive wedges and divide working-class people from having solidarity with each other. All to create these deflection points from looking at how they’re moving massive amounts of wealth out of the pockets of working-class people into the hands of some of the wealthiest people in our society. We’re talking about corporate entities, CEOs, shareholders — consolidating wealth among the wealthiest. And we saw that happen under the Big Beautiful Bill.
You won’t have access to key public benefits like SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] or be able to access assistance to cover your bill. Or if you live in the South and you’re experiencing a natural disaster, which has become common there because of climate change, you won’t get access to aid that would support recovery efforts, because those initiatives have been defunded under the Trump administration.
But to keep you from being angry about that, MAGA messaging encourages you to think your immigrant neighbor or your trans coworker is the problem. They’re the reasons why you don’t have a job; they’re the reasons why your communities are less safe — not austerity that’s been orchestrated by all levels of government under both the Democratic establishment and also under the Republican establishment. No, no, no — it’s your immigrant neighbors who are the problem.
And to really test this out, they honed in on Minneapolis. They started, under the guise of stopping fraud, of going after government waste and corruption. As if Trump is not one of the most corrupt and felon-decorated presidents in our history. But they went in under the guise of tackling fraud. And that immediately expedited and culminated in an immigration operation that targeted Somali residents here. And then we’ve seen it escalate to picking up
Auteur: Robin Wonsley
