describing it as weak and decaying and claiming it was destroying itself through immigration. In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the great replacement conspiracy theory.
Saying that the right wants to exterminate trans people is not hyperbole. Republican bigotry has fueled an array of initiatives designed to drive trans people out of public life. But conservatives aren't content with turning trans people into fourth-class citizens. They want the public to see them as enemies of the state-as mentally ill savages pulling the country into the moral abyss. America's never-ending gun violence has become a useful tool in this effort.
The appropriation of patriotic symbols like the American flag and Patriots' Day has raised concerns regarding their use in far-right extremism, distorting the original meaning.