History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes
Mark Twain
Beneath the manufactured antagonism between the nationalist immigration policy of the Trump administration and the “human rights” approach of the Democrats lies a monstrous unity of opposites permeating the choices of the American state power at large, whether wielded by GOP or the Dems. “Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above,” in the sociologist Matthew Desmond’s apt phrasing.
