Make America Again Analysis
The sweat and revenue immigrants bring into America is fruitless when the Xenophobia mindset forbids Americans from moving forward and accepting fruitful foreigners. We saw this embedded in the minds of the locals and the police in John Steinbeck’s , The grapes of wrath and now in Donald Trump’s ‘Make America again’. This campaign includes plans like building a wall along the mexican-american border, extreme vetting, and closing the doors on all syrian refugees. This is a contemporary twist to how Trump supporters resembled the locals attitude toward the Oakies and the native Americans when they manipulated the justice system to discourage, maybe even block the migrants from coming into California. This view belittles America’s in born morals, This country was made and built by immigrants not only to pursue an improved tomorrow but escape persecution from what they called home. By taking the freedom aspect of this great country, We as Americans are sadly degrading not only ourselves as
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citizens, but also the flag, the anthem, and Our country.
Xenophobia, We see a modern twist of this racist and anti-immigrant agenda in Trump’s campaign where he offers a different version of America; “Make America great again”.
This platform promises the idea of building a wall around the mexican-american border, having an anti-muslim ban in america which he calls ‘Extreme Vetting’, and closing the doors on syrian refugees whom he refers to as terrorists. “[Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox], get your money ready because you’re going to pay for the wall.”, “Somebody’s doing the raping. The thing is women being raped, well, then who’s doing the raping?” (Donald Trump,2016) Trump condemns the Mexicans for being ‘rapists’; Trump foolishly believes that Mexicans sends their worst people in order to bring America down. He then goes on to say that he’ll get the president of Mexico to pay for the wall he intend to build. This characteristic towards Mexicans are hostile and racist; Patheos, a renowned catholic blog published an article called ‘Twelve Ways Donald Trump Reflects America Today’, It exposes Trump’s relativity to the deadly sins.”The man is playing to
the xenophobic, ignorant and insular Americans of the worst sort. What policies of substance has he produced except to play on the fears, ignorance and bigotry of poorly educated Americans?”(“Twelve Ways Donald Trump Reflects America Today”) In this passage irony is present through the way the quote said ‘policies of substance has he produced except to play on the fears, ignorance and bigotry of poorly educated’ because this plays an indirect representation of how malice was produced by the locals and how they manipulated justice to their benefit. Trump’s use of words like ‘rapists’, ‘locker room talk’, and other malicious ways to describe immigrant’s eating away people's perception of Americans just as how the locals talked about the ‘oakies’. The book described the oakies as “These goddamned Okies are dirty and ignorant. They're degenerate, sexual maniacs. These goddamned Okies are thieves. They'll steal anything”(193; ch. 21) here we see the peculiar similarity that racist officials had with Donald trump in terms of their views towards migrants.
In the 1930’s where the book’s setting took place, the country was going through the dust bowl. The book follows the joad’s as they travelled west through route 66. Here Steinbeck was able to satirise racism in the most effective way. He used the locals and the police to personify xenophobia. The trauma and conflict the book showcased about the dust and the poverty was personified through the Joads. There’s An article written by Cecilia Rasmussen in The LA times about migrants during the dust bowl. Rasmussen entailed people’s experience, grievances, and even exploitation; The article featured Police Chief James Edgar "Two-Gun" Davis, a cotton picker who migrated from Texas in 1911 but who himself does not sympathize with the oakies. He begins to describe them as “Thieves and Thugs' and continues on to saying that he very much enforces law with his pistol and that constitutional rights only benefits crooks and criminals. Rasmussen, the author of the article then compares his attitude in connection to the book Grapes of wrath. “migrant horde from whom Steinbeck drew his fiction came out of the drought-stricken states of Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico and Arkansas. Lumped together as "Okies," they were the butt of derogatory jokes and the focus of political campaigns in which candidates made them the scapegoat for a shattered economy. They were accused of "shiftlessness," "lack of ambition," "school overcrowding" and "stealing jobs" from native Californians.”(Cecilia Rasmussen, LAPD Blocked Dust Bowl Migrants at State Borders) This goes to show that Steinbeck’s book wasnt only theoretical but also presented now.
citizens, but also the flag, the anthem, and Our country.
Xenophobia, We see a modern twist of this racist and anti-immigrant agenda in Trump’s campaign where he offers a different version of America; “Make America great again”.
This platform promises the idea of building a wall around the mexican-american border, having an anti-muslim ban in america which he calls ‘Extreme Vetting’, and closing the doors on syrian refugees whom he refers to as terrorists. “[Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox], get your money ready because you’re going to pay for the wall.”, “Somebody’s doing the raping. The thing is women being raped, well, then who’s doing the raping?” (Donald Trump,2016) Trump condemns the Mexicans for being ‘rapists’; Trump foolishly believes that Mexicans sends their worst people in order to bring America down. He then goes on to say that he’ll get the president of Mexico to pay for the wall he intend to build. This characteristic towards Mexicans are hostile and racist; Patheos, a renowned catholic blog published an article called ‘Twelve Ways Donald Trump Reflects America Today’, It exposes Trump’s relativity to the deadly sins.”The man is playing to
the xenophobic, ignorant and insular Americans of the worst sort. What policies of substance has he produced except to play on the fears, ignorance and bigotry of poorly educated Americans?”(“Twelve Ways Donald Trump Reflects America Today”) In this passage irony is present through the way the quote said ‘policies of substance has he produced except to play on the fears, ignorance and bigotry of poorly educated’ because this plays an indirect representation of how malice was produced by the locals and how they manipulated justice to their benefit. Trump’s use of words like ‘rapists’, ‘locker room talk’, and other malicious ways to describe immigrant’s eating away people's perception of Americans just as how the locals talked about the ‘oakies’. The book described the oakies as “These goddamned Okies are dirty and ignorant. They're degenerate, sexual maniacs. These goddamned Okies are thieves. They'll steal anything”(193; ch. 21) here we see the peculiar similarity that racist officials had with Donald trump in terms of their views towards migrants.
In the 1930’s where the book’s setting took place, the country was going through the dust bowl. The book follows the joad’s as they travelled west through route 66. Here Steinbeck was able to satirise racism in the most effective way. He used the locals and the police to personify xenophobia. The trauma and conflict the book showcased about the dust and the poverty was personified through the Joads. There’s An article written by Cecilia Rasmussen in The LA times about migrants during the dust bowl. Rasmussen entailed people’s experience, grievances, and even exploitation; The article featured Police Chief James Edgar "Two-Gun" Davis, a cotton picker who migrated from Texas in 1911 but who himself does not sympathize with the oakies. He begins to describe them as “Thieves and Thugs' and continues on to saying that he very much enforces law with his pistol and that constitutional rights only benefits crooks and criminals. Rasmussen, the author of the article then compares his attitude in connection to the book Grapes of wrath. “migrant horde from whom Steinbeck drew his fiction came out of the drought-stricken states of Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico and Arkansas. Lumped together as "Okies," they were the butt of derogatory jokes and the focus of political campaigns in which candidates made them the scapegoat for a shattered economy. They were accused of "shiftlessness," "lack of ambition," "school overcrowding" and "stealing jobs" from native Californians.”(Cecilia Rasmussen, LAPD Blocked Dust Bowl Migrants at State Borders) This goes to show that Steinbeck’s book wasnt only theoretical but also presented now.