And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.
I keep reading about the plans of parties to kick out all immigrants, stop letting in any, and some parties even advocate to revoke dual-nationalities and kick those people out too. I’ve never really understood what the point of it is and have trouble imagining what the effects of such actions would be within the country.
I really do think you’re under-estimating them. It’s the same thing the Christian democrats did in Germany when they gave Hitler the position of prime minister: “give him enough rope to hang himself”.
They thought he was an idiot. Saying “racists don’t think their actions through” is under-estimating in my book. There were scientists, doctors, and other intellectuals that spear-headed the third reich. They though their actions through pretty well and were humungous racists and enemies of humanity.
Have they demonstrated that they do have a plan beyond “deport them all”?
“Bring back real families” aka outlaw queers and any “non-traditional” relationships, change what is taught at school, exit the EU, ban burkhas in public buildings (then public spaces), and so on. So yeah, shift the blame of why things aren’t going well to a new group.
That’s pretty much what I mean. They’re going for the low-hanging fruit. As far as dealing with actual problems? Nothing.
I’ve seen this happen in my home country. The xenophobes were voted in and they showed that they had no plan. This is the most incompetent government in the history of my country. They have no capability of dealing with real issues, all they can do is yell about “the great replacement” and demonize people who aren’t as white as the driven snow.