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In the vacuum left behind by Donald Trump, the ringleaders of the right-wing media ecosystem are finding new and old ways to keep stoking white hysteria.
They've already found one winner: reprising the toxic, racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that brought Trump to power in the first place, but which had ebbed as Trump turned to other grievances instead.
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Cue Tucker Carlson, stoking racialized fear the other night on Fox News, charging that under Joe Biden's immigration policies "an MS-13 member arrested for drug dealing with previous convictions for say, theft, extortion, grand larceny" could be released "maybe into your neighborhood."