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STELTER: “Max, what are you seeing in the pro Trump media coverage of this. Is it demagoguery? How do you describe this?"
BOOT: “It is demagoguery, Brian, it is also I believe racism and nativism, really pandering to the fears of Trump supporters and Fox News viewers, who tend to be older white males who are alarmed about the supposed invasion of darker skinned newcomers coming to America. The threat is entirely bogus. Because in fact, border crossings have declined dramatically in the last 18 years down 80 percent. There is not a massive army of illegal immigrants, and these people are not eve illegal immigrants, they’re refugees who are seeking legal admission to the United States. How the Republican party has changed in my lifetime. This is something I wrote in my book, ‘Corrosion of Conservatism.’ When I was growing up in the 1980's. The Republican party was basically pro immigration. It was a conservative party with a right nationalist fringe. Under the impact of Fox news and Donald Trump It has transformed into essentially a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe. I mean I spent decades working in the conservative media for publication, like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and guess what, they were pro immigration.”
