How Trump weaponized economic anxiety
March 20, 2026
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as posted by the channel“What makes an economic crisis effective for these authoritarians is if they can connect people's economic pain to their racist... ideas.”
Racism scholar Ibram X. Kendi explains how people like Trump leverage financial crises to create further divide, showing how immigrants are ‘taking jobs.’
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