Scapegoating fuses immigrant groups, voter fraud, and partisan opposition into one conspiratorial target

Evidence

We see Trump bringing three of his stock conspiracist claims together—scapegoating of Mexican immigrants, voter fraud, and the Democratic Party as a conspiratorial group aimed at destroying him and the nation. “Democrats are the problem,” he tweeted. “They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!” This is presidential conspiracism, unique in its destructive power. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 143

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that presidential conspiracism uniquely combines scapegoating with electoral subversion connects to the broader library on nativism and manufactured enemies, e.g. Strangers in the Land. — connects to: Voter suppression becomes delegitimation when fused to fraud conspiracy claims — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 209; Partisan identity skews which conspiracist claims people credit — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 36; Scapegoating is a group-coordinated ideological phenomenon. (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Scapegoating conspiracism assigns hated groups responsibility for national troubles. #corroborates (0.90) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 139
• Voter suppression becomes delegitimation when fused to fraud conspiracy claims #expands (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 209
• Immigrant communities serve as scapegoats for national change #exemplifies (0.85)
• Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imagined homogeneous national past. #exemplifies (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 155
• Crisis-time scapegoating of religious out-groups masks political and economic causes #exemplifies (0.82)
• Scapegoating thrives where complex causes resist clear attribution #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1592
• Group scapegoating has recurred against Jews, Irish, Chinese, Roma, and LGBTQ people #exemplifies (0.78) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 37
• Partisan identity skews which conspiracist claims people credit #complicates (0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 36
• Scapegoating is a group-coordinated ideological phenomenon. #expands (0.72)
• Framing parties as conspiracies constitutes an attack on democracy itself #expands (0.72) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 191
• Outsiders misconstrue tightly organized social groups as secret conspiracies. #complicates (0.72)
• Conspiracy theories give concrete form to a group’s sensed loss of power #expands (0.72) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 58