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“They’re poisoning the blood of our country”
“These are bad – these are animals, and we have to stop it”
“A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory.”
If you had to bet money on it, who spoke each of these quotes? Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump?
Donald Trump said all three.
Shannon Bow O’Brien, a UT-Austin expert in presidential speechmaking, has spent the last couple years studying the deep-rooted American tradition of eugenics.
“Trump seems to adhere to more eugenics rhetoric than racially charged language, which I find scarier,” O’Brien said.
With the 2024 election coming up, O’Brien’s latest book release, Eugenics in American Political Life, is extremely important. While eugenics in the American imagination is often only associated with the Holocaust, O’Brien points out that eugenics as a movement began in America – and is still alive and well.
“Ask yourself the question: do we still see inferences of who should belong...