Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham pledged to support "the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history."

Summary

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered President-elect Donald Trump a 1,402-acre ranch for deportation facilities.

The ranch, near the Rio Grande, is strategically located and has been previously used for agricultural purposes.

Despite claims of immigrants committing crimes at higher rates, data shows they commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    You think Vance and company won’t be right in there behind him to continue things? Trump laid out the populist approach, the only reason others have failed is because MAGA is personally loyal to Trump. Of course there would be a PR struggle to win that loyalty but someone like Vance or DeSantis is going to win it and then we’re still in the same boat. Trump’s popularity isn’t an inherent trait, in person he’s widely reported to be a narcissistic idiot. He’s a built personality, after him they’ll just build the next one.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      71·
      1 day ago

      Trump’s popularity isn’t an inherent trait,

      It is, actually. Fascisim is about The Guy. It is only about The Guy. Everyone else is expendable. Vance will not pull the kind of support that Trump can, and neither will DeSantis.

      You can see this in how people voted. There are a bunch of states this cycle where Trump won their EC votes, but a Democrat won a statewide election. What appears to have happened is that a whole lot of people marked Trump on their ballot and walked away. There’s no push to support anyone other than Trump.

      The Germans kept fighting until Hitler offed himself. Then they capitulated almost immediately. Italy was done as soon as Mussolini ran away; almost all fighting that continued to happen inside Italian territory was with German units, not Italian.

      Vance would try to take over, but he can’t conjure up the kind of loyalty Trump has. The MAGA brownshirts are behind Trump enough that news media figures and politicians are fearing for their own safety. That dissolves the moment Trump is gone.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        41·
        24 hours ago

        The Germans absolutely did not. They were surrendering in droves well before Hitler killed himself. The government did not officially surrender but everyone knew it was over. And fascist extremists continued to fight well after he died.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      Nope. They don’t have personalities like Trump. Trump has been a known name since before I was born. Vance? DeSantis? They can’t replicate the cult of personality. They might thing they can, but that’s the thing about cults. Once the head of the snake is off, it stops acting like a snake

      And more like a gross belt

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        1·
        24 hours ago

        That’s the popular idea but it’s not a one to one analogy. MAGA is also a political movement that thinks it’s rebelling against Washington Insiders. That’s why he’s replaceable.