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.
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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.
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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.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
The weirdest thing about using a “crime wave” to gin up fear is that I’m pretty sure it was a predominantly intraracial crime wave. Black intraracial crime scares Whites into electing politicians who support social policies that help drive the crime they’re afraid of. Wild shit.
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I think it increases the general sense that black people are a menace that needs to be contained by brutal, racist police forces (thus making white people more scared of BLM, which seeks to contain the power of the police).
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I’m wondering, given how devoid of reality this whole narrative is anyway, why you need the spike to begin with? I guess the media has to play its part by counting murders in “Chicago.” I’ve often noticed that Whites who don’t live anywhere near us have the strongest opinions...
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...For instance, Steve King of the Clorox flavored state of Iowa seems to think that in Chicago you can go three generations without holding a job, which shows that he only encounters Black people on television. You just take a kernel and lie about the rest.
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There is absolutely nothing good about Steve King...
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