Trump has three basic groups of people that he thinks he can use as scary bogeymen to stir up fear among voters: 1. Central American immigrants 2. Black people 3. Muslims He basically cycles back and forth between these three bogeymen, as circumstances allow.
-
Show this thread
-
Recently, it's been hard for Trump to gin up fear of Muslims. There haven't been any high-profile ISIS attacks recently, and ISIS' army has been defeated in the Middle East.
8 replies 13 retweets 119 likesShow this thread -
It has also been hard to gin up fear of black people recently. The crime wave of 2015-2016 has largely ended. https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/2018_09_CrimeAnalysisV6.pdf … BLM is not as high-profile, cities haven't had any riots, and Jason van Dyke went down for murder. All Trump can do is swipe at Kaepernick.
6 replies 13 retweets 107 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Noahpinion
He hasnt really concentrated that much on black americans though, afaict, which would make me think it's more nativism and anti foreigner than race per se (this is a point Eric Kaufmann made, iirc, that anti Latino sentiment is much more important than the colour line)
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
During his campaign he did, and since taking office he's started fights with Kaepernick, but I think you're right (and the commentariat is largely wrong) - fear of black riots etc. just isn't as powerful as it was a few decades ago.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.