"In the wake of the pandemic we can be sure that fascists and will seek to mobilize tropes of — racial, national, economic — purity, purification, parasitism, and pollution to impose their long-festering dreams on reality. The vengeful romance of the border, now more politicized than ever, will haunt all of us in the years to come. The “new” authoritarians, whether they emphasize the totalitarian state or the totalitarian market — or both — will insist that we all recognize we now live — have always lived — in a ruthless, competitive world and must take measures to wall ourselves in and cast out the undesirable."
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