“Housing scarcity – Jews guilty,” letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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— Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com) November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In case you haven’t been following administration messaging intently, you might need missed this. It hasn’t gotten practically the protection it deserves.
The White Home and its allies are lining up behind the argument that mass deportation would scale back—and even remove—inflation.
There are a number of deeply disturbing facets to this. First, the historical past of this explicit argument is exceptionally ugly, with clear antecedents in Nazi Germany.
Second there’s the comically blatant lie of claiming that there thiry million undocumented imigrants dwelling right here.
Third—and right here I’m a bit out of my depth, so I hope Joseph or a few of our regulars will soar in if I get one thing flawed—it additionally runs instantly counter to standard financial principle. Whereas eradicating tens of millions of immigrants, documented and undocumented, would scale back demand, these employees are disproportionately employed in sectors like building and meals harvesting and processing. Entry to immigrant labor additionally helps forestall extreme labor shortages, that are themselves inflationary.
Fed
Governor Stephen Miran: “Reducing down web migration to 0, doubtlessly
even destructive due to the deportations which were occurring, I
suppose could be very deflationary.”— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Maybe probably the most disturbing a part of all this (outdoors of the
“we bought it from the Nazis” angle) is listening to this line of argument
coming from a fed governor. I doubt Miran believes what he’s saying right here any greater than Bessent believes the claims he’s been pushing about tariffs.
