Republicans cheer for ‘mass deportation’ – a dark new chapter in America’s history of othering ‘them’

Delegates at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee on 17 July. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

The Republican party has made it clear it doesn’t like pronouns. But two in particular have become the seething core of the worldview it holds: “they” and “them”.

Just hours after the former president was shot at on 13 July, Cory Mills, a Republican US representative from Florida, posted on X: “First they tried to silence him. Then they tried to imprison him. Now they try to kill him.”