fascism in power seeks to make its rhetoric into reality—for example, by immiserating and impoverishing populations it represents as diseased. In early March, Trump’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered immigration court staff “to remove CDC posters designed to slow spread of coronavirus.”*6 It’s hard to see what the point of such an order is, except to give some reality to the association between immigrants and the virus by failing to inform these populations of the dangers.
