Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
What else would you call people who are escaping an abusive government to avoid impending danger?
Americans have this deep-seated pride that leads them to believe that “it could never happen here,” but I have news for us all, it’s already happening, it getting worse every day, and it’s going to get far worse than our worst imaginations, if we don’t do something serious to stop it.
I have a degree in history, I know EXACTLY where we are headed, and just being American is not going to protect or save us.
I don’t have a degree in history, I know EXACTLY where you are headed.
I get it, it seems pretty obvious, but MAGA has spent years convincing many people that only good can happen, and a lot of them still buy it.