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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Trump and Harris on Immigration
Description: https://youtu.be/pKCfFCED9XA
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Ben Bayer analyze the anti-American immigration platforms of both the Trump and Harris campaigns.
Among the topics covered:
The tribal and arbitrary nature of Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric;
Why Republicans rely on fear-mongering to push their anti-immigration agenda;
Harris’s shameful evasion of the immigration topic and the racism of her opponents;
How both Democrats and Republicans share a collectivistic view of immigrants;
The role of altruism in shaping the anti-American approach to immigration.
Mentioned in this podcast are Vergara Cid’s essay “Rethin...