I'm sure it's true. But, as I see it, attributing it all to the idea of "xenophobia" ultimately benefits the populist far right: it puts beyond the pale any discussion about migration & asylum that acknowledges the right of a political community to control the scale and reason that outsiders can join (yes, there's an inside and an outside, that's what citizenship means, that's not xenophobic).
If the far-right freak is the only one saying that there's a problem when there is a problem (with antisemitism, with acceptance of the political culture of liberal democracy, with respect for women's rights) then the problems will only feed off each other and multiply.
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