Anti-Muslim surveillance is bipartisan rather than partisan

Evidence

Racializing Muslims is not a partisan practice but rather one that is motivated by political gain. It is a shared act that occurs in what appear to be liberal cities like Chicago as well as more conservative cities like Dallas and Fort Worth. The Muslim Americans I interviewed had similar encounters in both cities. Many of the experiences I documented happened under the Obama administration—a Democratic one. Policies on national security that target Muslims have not been radically different under a Democratic president compare to a Republican one. Obama did not eliminate the USA PATRIOT Act or stop the hypersurveillance of Muslims; in fact, the surveillance of Muslims thrived under the Obama administration. Michael Rosino and Matthew Hughey (2015) argue that both Democrats and Republicans have historically and currently rely on racialized discourses to garner support from white voters. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 474

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s existing map on surveillance racialization and to Beydoun/Rana/Sian on COINTELPRO-style state surveillance — this partisan-transcendence point reinforces the COINTELPRO parallel.
• SEED: An essay angle: how national-security targeting of a group survives partisan transitions because both parties mine it for white votes — the quiet bipartisan machinery of domestic surveillance.