Odette Youssef

than native-born.

You know, Eric Ward helped me understand a little bit about the purpose of using this propaganda.

Here's what he said.

And so, you know, what Ward told me is that these messages are really intended to create emotional responses in people to certain things.

So to feel pride when you hear the word homeland, to have a certain visual association with a homeland, like we were talking, Mara, like which mostly involves white people, to prompt fear of, quote, criminal aliens and creating those emotional associations is a political strategy of manipulation.

Well, I'll read some of the statements that they sent me.

Here's some of what the Department of Homeland Security responded, quote, by NPR standards, every American who posts patriotic imagery on the 4th of July should be canceled and labeled a Nazi.

Not everything you dislike is, quote, Nazi propaganda.

democrats have been bringing non-citizens into the country to vote illegally you know this is a conspiracy theory that has not been backed by evidence that very much resembles what's known as the great replacement conspiracy theory which is an anti-semitic racist conspiracy theory that was born in europe among white nationalists there so the white house responded quote there is nothing racist about wanting to ensure only american citizens vote in american elections

NPR's bizarre attack on election integrity is an insult to all Americans and a prime example of why their propaganda is no longer funded by taxpayers.

Yeah, I mean, it's something that I think a lot of people are wondering about, right?

Because to be drawing on neo-Nazi themes in public messaging to Americans is like, why?

You know, white nationalists are a minority in this country.

They're probably not even the largest group in the MAGA tent.

But we know that some of this messaging has won voters, you know, again, that great replacement conspiracy theory that turned into voter replacement, you know, that was persuasive to many people during the 2024 election.

And so I think just as Eric Ward was saying in that earlier cut,

This is about testing, you know, this is about testing how far these extremist messages might be normalized and made palatable to a broader public.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's interesting to see how that kind of framing of, you know, what this country is and who it's for is really placing the US at odds with many of our traditional European allies.

I mean, this has...