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

One's in ideology, one's trying to understand a phenomenon.

And so, yet the willingness in this administration to use terms,

that are so clearly coming out of a white racist rhetoric is unbelievable.

And to have people in the administration talk about Hitler being a good guy or racism's okay, it's just... Can you imagine the Ronald Reagan administration doing that?

John Kennedy's administration doing that?

Even the Bush, even he was reviled, but even the Bush administration doing that?

I mean, it's just...

such a new low that most of us have no idea how to really contemplate it.

And so in a sense, I hope my book helps us understand that a little bit, what's going on, how that's taken place over the last 30, 40, 50 years, because it's almost unexplicable that there's people willing to allow this kind of rhetoric and actions, but rhetoric really to be so front and center and

in the administration of the United States of America.

It's just unbelievable, really.

So I think, like many academics, we're all trying to just get over the actual awe of what's happening to try and make some sense of it.

And I hope my book adds a little bit to that sense of trying to come to grips with what's happening.

And I think...

What we're seeing in the polls, as you know, is that people are trying to reject those ideas because, in a sense, they're very un-American.

I mean, they're extremely un-American, and I think people recognize that.

And hopefully we'll see, as we always do in politics, you know, a sort of one wave begets another wave in the opposite direction.

And I'm hoping...

That's what happens.

And I think, well, as you put it, we're sort of lambasted as inventors of information rather than scientists or creators of knowledge in the contemporary right-wing political discourse.

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