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Looking back at 2020, which is the closest thing to a 2008 crisis in recent history, Trump was less than 50k votes away from being reelected despite Covid-19, riots, a break off Republican group directly opposing and campaigning against him and a poor economy. In neutral environments, Trump has crossed 300 EVs both times. How strong is Trump electorally compared to Republicans of the past?

Think about it. In the 2010s — particularly 2019 — it was this ridiculous, fringe idea that was mostly defended by neo-Nazis, the ultra-far-right, the fringe racialist right. It was associated with the Christchurch mosque shooter, for Pete's sake.

IBÖ gathering in Austria, 2013

Now, only a few years later, parties with open remigration platforms such as Vlaams Belang won significant chunks of the Flemish Parliament and others in 2024 and the Finnish Deputy Prime Minister literally openly used the term when speaking of controlling immigration:

>"If a person vacations in a country they fled or sends their children there for cultural studies, it is clear to us that the right to asylum ends. Remigration (Paluumuutto) and strict immigration control are the most important measures that can prevent problems caused by immigration," Purra said.
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Further, in Britain, Rupert Lowe — an elected Member of Parliament — openly speaks of "reverse migration". He commands a party of 140,000 members, more people than the Conservatives today.

Not much even needs to be said of the AfD, which has entirely overtaken the CDU/CSU in polling by multiple digits and would destroy the firewall outright if they were elected now. The AfD has remigration as one of their bread-and-butter issues.

https://preview.redd.it/gxz3ougfbebh1.png?width=1199&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b26574d63e0888bb21163ab22b4236892ca06aa

This seems to me, out of all the psy-ops and attempts to make cleaner, more polite rhetoric, like "It's OK to be White", among others — the most successful.

Would love to hear your thoughts. Why is Remigration in particular so potent, and why did it become part of polite discourse? Are people just that tired of mass migration in Europe and elsewhere?