TFW you realize that disappearing grad students off the street for having said something politically incorrect will likely be the bulk of their action on immigration.
I feel it’s more the idea of “misery loves company” playing out on a grand scale.
The wealth gap in America has pushed a larger amount of the population into ever tightening economic situations.. the psychological aspect of this brings people to want other people to feel suffering if they are.
Unfortunately the population is being fed fake enemies by the people in leadership positions.
Step 1. Identify the political obstacles in your way.
Step 2. Use conservative media to make people hate those things.
Step 3. Get elected on the basis of manufactured hate.
Step 4. Get rid of your political obstacles.
Since the Southern Strategy, American conservativism has been encouraging and weaponizing hate for votes.
And since the gutting and exiling of mainstream conservatives ~2019+, it's fair to say they're now primarily a party of hate. (Both in their elected officials and supporters)
It isn't about actual slights against conservatives by liberals -- at this point those are only rhetorical cover for doing what they want to politically.