HATER FRIDAY: The Media’s Normalization of Ethnonationalism and the ‘Enemy Within’

Reading time: about 5 minutes The “blue tsunami” of the 2026 midterm elections brought with it an additional wave of historic firsts for American politics. Keisha Lance Bottoms (D-Ga.) made history as the first black woman elected as a state’s governor; Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) is the first Muslim to be elected senator; Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) is the first openly gay man to be elected senator; Gina Hinojosa (D-Texas) is the first Latina to be elected governor of Texas and there are many more. There is much to celebrate in the wake of these results, including restored hope for the causes of affordability and human rights protections throughout the U.S.; aside from these issues, perhaps the greatest victory is for the principle of civic nationalism.

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