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The current American movement against immigration is a periodic nativist backlash of the kind the country has had before, not a new phenomenon.
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- Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
I believe that the MAGA movement is simply one of America’s periodic nativist backlashes, like the Know-Nothings in the 1850s or the restrictionists of the 1910s.
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