Leo R. Chavez

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New Books in Communications · Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

What does rhetoric do to people in terms of their psychological status?

So I had to add that section.

onto the book.

So it made it a little longer, but I think it's worthwhile because the question that I had there was, you know, how does it affect people to have people talking so badly about you?

And of course,

even since I wrote that book, it hasn't changed.

I mean, obviously, Trump is still railing against immigrants, claiming they're eating dogs, claiming, you know, people are just, they're animals, literally calling them animals.

So everything, it's almost as if this, my Latino threat narrative just ceased to exist in the mind of people who are trying to pursue this idea that immigrants are a threat to society.

And so, you know, I wrote that book because I felt that

I had to find a way to deal with these issues.

And that's how this book came about.

It's not so much a refutation, so much as a way of looking at how Donald Trump got here, because he didn't invent any of the tropes that I'm talking about.

And 2008 was way before Donald Trump, right?

And 2012 was way before Donald Trump.

So he didn't invent this.

He used these ideas incredibly effectively to get his base upset about immigrants.

And we see it today.

It's just an awful system.

The Supreme Court's thinking about getting rid of birthright citizenship.

And so he used it very effectively.

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