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.
There are three parts to this answer.
The Average supporter for this kind of rhetoric has built their whole life around believing that they are special just for being who they are. In America you have the south, where white people are special, they are the “salt of the earth” they have the “common sense answers” and if everybody would just listen to them, they would rule everything justly etc…
And then that doesnt pan out, and they figure out that just being white and from the south doesnt make them the destined king of everything, and they need somebody to blame. Obviously its not their fault, they are perfect. Obviously its not the politicians who are telling them how special they are, those guys cant be wrong. It must be because X group is conspiring against them.
So they want to punish X group for conspiring against them, and opressing them, for stopping them from taking their obviously deserved place of privilege and power.
The average supporter desperately wants to believe that they are so smart that they could never fall for populist propaganda. And they are such good people (good Christians), obviously its logical that x group is causing all these problems (remember, it cant possibly be the politicians telling them how special they are, those guys cant possibly be wrong).
So it must be logical that the problem is that “those demonrats are wasting millions of my hard earned tax dollars to give medical care to illegals” and therefore they need to get rid of those “illegals” who are stealing all their hard earned money, and everything will be right with the world.
They dont want to think they want to hurt anybody, they just think that if all those illegals who are taking all the jobs and all the money went somewhere else, everything would be better.
“I cant believe that I just have to pretend to be as racist as those rubes, and tell them how special they are and they will let me do anything”
There isnt an end game, getting the power/money is the end game.