Opinion

How the Far Right Uses Mystical Racism to Demonize Migrants

ASKING DUMB QUESTIONS

They’re fixating on corn (yes, corn) and pseudo-historical interpretations of Christianity that paint non-white immigrants as forces sent by Satan.

Alec Dent
Alec Dent
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