“Vox pivoted its message away from immigrants taking jobs and toward immigrants taking homes. Its leaders began blaming the country’s housing crisis on foreigners” — That’s how Housing Nationalism operates, as a platform to activate reactionary nationalism as @lausterna.bsky.social and I explained.
Jens von Bergmann
“The lesson for me is that scarcity is the ultimate gift to the far right,” Galindo said. “When there isn’t enough housing or public transit or health-care services for everyone, it’s so much easier to point a finger at immigrants than to address the actual causes of that shortage.”
www.theatlantic.com
The country’s leaders avoided a populist backlash by engineering an economic boom. Now the boom is creating problems of its own.
