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So the pro-Trump GOP now says ONLY way the shutdown ends is if TSA agents strike and US air traffic goes down the toilet. The ONLY way. This is what Trump's extremist white nationalism means: wrecking the govt & endangering safety are ok, b/c The Wall. 1/
The Wall isn't about a wall. The Wall, like Pepe, is a symbol, a metaphor in concrete, an idea made of steel & barbed wire. The idea is the United States as a white ethnostate. The idea is blood & soil. The idea is the US turns its back on the world, & cleans house. 2/
And however awful you think the phrase "cleans house" might be, it's far worse, b/c it means exactly what you think. The Wall as idea is about sealing borders & mass deportations to slow demographic change in an America that's no longer a beacon of hope for the world... 3/
...but a white Homeland, the kind the Afrikaaners repeatedly tried, & failed, to establish. It's Serbia w/o Muslims, Turkey w/o Armenians, Rwanda w/o Tutsi. We all know where this leads. But it's where the GOP's racists & evangelicals want to go. 4/
So when Trump and his supporters threaten to extend the shutdown & its chaos for months, they mean it. Because The Wall isn't a wall. It's white Christian identity. And for that, they'll let people go hungry, US transportation descend into hell, & natl security be endangered. 5/
