118: Greg Bovino Wants to Be Your President feat. Christopher Mathias
Do you remember the small guy in a big, fashy-looking coat who oversaw ICE's invasion of Minneapolis — the operation that led to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? His name is Gregory Bovino, and he wants to be your president.
Acclaimed "To Catch a Fascist" author Christopher Mathias rejoins PTI this week. After a brief detour into the sentencing of antifascists in Texas, he joins Jared and Mike to paint a picture of Bovino: beyond standing just 5'4", the man is afflicted with a metastasized strain of MAGA, one fixated on "remigration" — that is, deporting upwards of a hundred million people. This year, he stepped down from commanding ICE and moved into new territory: cozying up to hardened white nationalists and meeting with extremists abroad.
So dust off your VHS copy of "The Border" and join us as we get to the bottom of the most shocking truth of all: Bovino may look like he's from Long Island, but he's not!
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Minor criticism but I really feel the need to push back on the remigration is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing thing. Ethnic cleansing is its self a soft pedelling of genocide. Raphael Lemkin specificity called out the forced displacement of a racial or ethnic group as genocide. That was stripped from the international law definition of genocide because of the sheer number of countries that are guilty of it. When someone calls for "remigration" what you should hear is a call for genocide. Weather it's ethnic cleansing or remigration it's a rebranding of genocide and the people who call for it are Nazis.