_wire_ 10 hours ago

Instigated by Republicans.

Old timers will recall conservatives 2008 presidential campaign fear-mongering about the NAFTA (Bill Clinton!) Trans-Texas corridor and secret plans to build a super-highway from Mexico to Canada with a complex of detention camps in the center of the country, then break the nation apart and destroy the red states once and for all...

Highway To Hell? - Newsweek 2007

https://www.newsweek.com/highway-hell-94645

//The main purveyor of this broad conspiracy theory is Jerome Corsi, coauthor of "Unfit for Command," the book that helped Swift Boat John Kerry's presidential ambitions. His latest offering is "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada," which became a best seller on The New York Times's business list this summer. Corsi plays on growing nationalist fears. He sees a scenario in which a North American Union is born and shares a currency, the "amero." Even some right-wing standard-bearers regard the fears as over-blown. Jed Babbin, editor of the conservative newspaper Human Events, says: "I guess there are people who believe in [the plan for a North American Union]. But there are people who believe in Bigfoot." "The evidence is out there," says Corsi.//

BIGFOOT -> TRUMP!