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  • Abcarian: Republicans fearing a midterm rout revive Islamophobia as political strategy

    03/22/2026 5:50:48 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 34 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | Updated March 22, 2026 | By Robin Abcarian
    Boy, it's been a struggle whipping up ugly racist sentiment since President Trump "closed" the border last year. No more stories about immigrant caravans marching ominously north to steal our jobs and rape our women. No more tall tales of Haitian gangs eating the cats, eating the dogs. Sure, immigrants might still be "poisoning the blood" of our country, as the president claimed numerous times during his 2024 campaign. But with so many violent deportations and the killing of two white American citizens protesting them, that rhetoric has lost some of its glow. What we need are some fresh scapegoats....