Fear, Loathing, and the Hemispheric Consequences of Xenophobic Hate

“When you have fifteen thousand people marching up . . . how do you stop these people?” “You shoot them” [crowd member shouts] [chuckling, Trump responds:] “[O]nly in the Panhandle can you get away with that thing.”1 President Donald Trump “Thousands of criminal aliens. They’re pouring into our country.”2 President Donald Trump “They’re not people, these are animals.”3 President Donald Trump “Take a look at the death and destruction that’s been caused by people coming into this country caused by people that shouldn’t be here.”4 President Donald Trump “ [We] have millions and millions of people pouring into our country.”5 President Donald Trump “We cannot allow our [c]ountry to be overrun by illegal immigrants.”6 President Donald Trump “We will be overrun with crime and with people that should not be in our country.”7 President Donald Trump