Beck 322: following the Arab Spring and the Syrian descent into civil war, "more than half of Syria's population was forced to leave their homes, including some six million who were internally displaced and almost five million refugees [...] Between 2011 and 2016, successive waves of migration, along with the social crises they produced as migrants reached the shores of Europe, supercharged nativist political sentiment both on the Continent and in the United States, kicking off a process of right-wing anti-immigrant radicalization that would culminate in the 'Muslim ban' Trump instituted upon his arrival in the Oval Office in 2017. In 2011, people fled Libya at the rate of a thousand every hour"
2011: massacre committed by Anders Breivik, whose "manifesto quoted a number of right-wing American bloggers" (324)
"In 2015 [...] violence escalated dramatically in Syria, and Syrians fled their homeland en masse. Around 1.3 million refugees sought asylum in Europe that year, the highest number since World War II. The stress these migrant inflows placed on the social service capacities of European countries (Germany, Bulgaria, France, and Italy in particular) breathed new life into the continent's nativist political parties, who painted the migrants' desperate search for safety as the beginnings of a civilizational conquest"
"European nativists had long viewed Muslim immigrants as harbingers of civilizational decline"