When Ohio Sen. JD Vance started his racist assaults towards Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrant group, one enterprise proprietor stood up and defended them—Jamie McGregor. His impassioned protection went viral.
“I wish I had 30 more,” stated McGregor to PBS about his Haitian staff. “Our Haitian associates come to work every day. They don’t have a drug problem. They will stay at their machine. They will achieve their numbers. They are here to work. And so, in general, that’s a stark difference from what we’re used to in our community.”
McGregor’s implication is obvious: Largely white locals hadn’t been as much as the duty, however authorized immigrants are.
Now, the Republican, two-time Donald Trump voter is beneath siege by his personal folks.
The New York Occasions experiences how McGregor has confronted “death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants.” The FBI has visited, warning of credible threats of violence towards him and his household.
One message left on his firm’s voicemail stated, “The owner of McGregor Metal can take a bullet to the skull and that would be 100 percent justified.” One other stated, “Stack all 20,000 Haitians inside Jamie McGregor’s factory at once and force him to praise the benefits of foreign labor while being crushed to death by Black bodies themselves being crushed to death.”
He has purchased a gun for the primary time, and needed to pull his daughter out of college for capturing classes. “I can’t imagine living my whole life like this,” McGregor advised the Occasions. “You realize, it’s acquired to finish. It’s acquired to cease—hopefully after the election.’’
It’s a unhappy actuality that conservatives out of the blue see the sunshine after they themselves are beneath duress or hardship. McGregor had been glad to vote for Trump twice earlier than regardless of his rank hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions. However after all, that was imagined to have an effect on different folks elsewhere. He was one of many good guys, till he wasn’t. MAGA conservatism brooks no dissent.
Let’s not neglect that Vance and Trump know they’re trafficking in lies, however they don’t care.
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance stated, although the emphasis is mine.
They don’t care sufficient to even disguise the truth that they’re mendacity, they don’t care in regards to the immigrant communities that are actually being focused for hateful assaults, they usually definitely don’t care about their very own supporters caught within the crossfire. Heck, there’s a particular type of fury directed at them for being “traitors” to their racist trigger.
In actual fact, that’s their total marketing campaign at this level. This was Trump yesterday, referred to as out on his lies in regards to the Biden administration refusing to ship support to Republican counties in response to Hurricane Helene.
They know these lies harm folks. They don’t care.
