Luke Thomas: The Trump administration is now posting full on fascist content - continuing to move the line of what is supposed to be "acceptable" in modern America.
Remigration, DHS messaging, Stephen Miller, ICE tactics, and the Fourth Amendment collide in a warning about how language becomes policy when the federal government decides to pick winners and losers.
Reports that official government accounts are using rhetoric and imagery associated with white nationalist movements are not treated here as a throwaway online controversy, but as a signal of intent. The argument is straightforward: when agencies normalize a certain vocabulary, they are also normalizing the project behind it, including a push to roll the country back toward a pre-1965 immigration vision. From there, the conversation widens into what that kind of agenda can look like in practice, including hardline enforcement posture, selective punishment of political opponents, and a federal government increasingly comfortable testing the limits of constitutional restraints.
The discussion also connects domestic escalation to foreign policy risk, including intervention fantasies that can trigger cascading instability, and a reminder from Iraq that mass purges do not create order, they create blowback. Finally, it turns to the uncomfortable logic of self protection politics when people believe the state is no longer neutral.
Listen to the full conversation over on Luke’s Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/
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Chapters
00:00 DHS posts and “remigration” rhetoric
01:00 Nazi slogans and normalization
02:00 Ethnostate goal and 1965 rollback
03:20 Why immigration powers the US
04:05 Neo Monroe doctrine blowback risk
06:00 Iraq de-Baathification warning
07:10 Guns, Black Panthers, law backlash
08:05 ICE and Fourth Amendment concerns
09:00 Federal punishment of blue states
