Donald Trump has the tacit blessing of senior Republican figures as he seeks to put border security front and center of the 2024 election by deploying fascistic language to fire up his support base, political analysts warn. The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 has called for a sharp crackdown on immigration and asserted at a weekend rally that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”. The comment drew on words similar to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in his autobiography and manifesto Mein Kampf. Yet Republicans offered little by way of condemnation, a familiar dodge that...