Olen Steinhauer and the New York Times: "Account How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars"

The New York Times:

By Jeremy W. Peters, Michael M. Grynbaum, Keith Collins, Rich Harris and Rumsey Taylor

Aug. 11, 2019

Tucker Carlson went on his prime-time Fox News show in April last year and told his viewers not to be fooled. The thousands of Central Americans on their way to the United States were “border jumpers,” not refugees, he said. “Will anyone in power do anything to protect America this time,” he asked, “or will leaders sit passively back as the invasion continues?”

When another group approached the border six months later, Ann Coulter, appearing as a guest on Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show, offered a dispassionately violent suggestion about what could be done to stem the flow of migrants: “You can shoot invaders.”

A few days after, Rush Limbaugh issued a grim prognosis to his millions of radio listeners: If the immigrants from Central America weren’t stopped, the United States would lose its identity. “The objective is to dilute and eventually eliminate or erase what is known as the distinct or unique American culture,” Mr. Limbaugh said, adding: “This is why people call this an invasion.”

There is a striking degree of overlap between the words of right-wing media personalities and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso this month. In a 2,300-word screed posted on the website 8chan, the killer wrote that he was “simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.”

THIS IS HARDLY NEWS. I am reading THE MIDDLEMAN, a 2018 book by Olen Steinhauer, in which he describes what a Fox news star, Sam Schumer, has begun saying about INVASION FROM THE SOUTH"--his "exposé on the future of illegal immigration."  Schumer, now (2018 already) "Sunday night's most-watched news program," has this warning: 

"BY 2028, THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES WILL FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES BE MEXICO'S NORTHERN STATES. EXPECT SECESSION. EXPECT WAR."

Trump was Trump all through the campaign of 2016. Some of us did not know about the Russian collusion yet, but Olen Steinhauer is not a visionary, just a close observer.