David James Gonzalez
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540 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
David James Gonzalez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
Maybe America isn't fully ready to turn a page on its past and its close proximity and attachment to white supremacy.
Right.
And its cultural symbols.
Right.
And so with that, one thing your book really does a phenomenal job, it's always done a phenomenal job pointing out, is how these ideas from the fringe, because that's where, again, I mean, just...
when the book came out, it was just, it was crazy.
It was crazy to think, you know, a lot of this rhetoric, you know, it was, it was the super fringe and you, you pointed those out, the, you know, the Buchanans of the world, the Samuel Huntington's in Samuel Huntington.
I mean, you know, an academic and Harvard, right.
That, you know, but these people were very fringe saying that Latinos or immigrants poison the blood.
I mean, this is very old, right.
Native is xenophobic rhetoric in American history, but, but,
It had now been pushed, you know, thanks to the history of eugenics and Nazism, this type of talk right in the post-war era was not really acceptable.
Right.
And so while it still existed and was always an undercurrent of our politics and our rhetoric, it was off in the fringes.
And it's become mainstream.
Like, from there, from 2008, right, to now, this is almost, I mean, for many people, we could have, I don't know, is it a third of the country?
I don't know how big MAGA is or whatever.
And how many of these people are really, I think Trump's biggest, right, effective message is this, right?
Is the Latino threat?
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