muh common enemy

A lot of leftist intellectuals pull this sort of bullshit, most notably Chomsky and Eco. They take these common features of our reality, present in most relationships and interactions, and then try to pass them off as legitimate “red flags” for muh fascism, muh oppression, etc. The goal is to transform simple bits and pieces of reality into big alarming indicators so that you can generate false positives whenever you examine right wing movements.

Literally any political or cultural movement is going to have enemies. The existence of enemies is not de facto proof that you are somehow in the wrong. Your inability to please everyone is not a flaw in your ideology. To the contrary, if you are pissing off or harming the right people, then you are doing a good job. Leftists don’t even pretend to shy away from this idea, yet their pet intellectuals only ever level criticisms of this behavior when right wingers do it.

“They’re making immigrants the enemy!”

Yes. Immigrants are the enemy of the local citizenry. Necessarily. A strong and prosperous nation can absorb more immigrants before collapsing, but that doesn’t mean immigrants are good when they are few in number. It just means they can be tolerated.