More: Don't lie to yourself that this is just about the fraud investigation. That's cover: A way to help the normies sleep at night. Trump is bashing the entire ethnic community, calling them "garbage," and menacing them as a group. It's now combined with state repression: ICE has descended on Minneapolis. A U.S. citizen was "wrongfully" detained by ICE agents for looking Somali. He was forced to his knees and put in a chokehold before being taken to a Federal facility. He said officers refused to look at his Real ID. He was released after agents finally allowed him to show his passport. Again, don't lie to yourself: this wasn't an accident. "Mistakes" like this one do the dirty work. The point is to terrorize this community. To make them feel unwelcome. To say to them, "You're not Americans, and you'll never be."

It's not an accident that this is coming in the wake of the antisemitism scandal. The right is trying to pick another, safer target for racial hate that they think Americans will mind less than picking on Jews. They tried it with Zohran. That backfired because he's just not scary enough, and even Trump realized it wasn't gonna work. Of course, this approach is morally indefensible and logically absurd. You can't libel entire ethnicities and then cry about decaying standards. You are the lower standard, you cheap thug. And just because there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't make you any less of one.