Donald Trump has long used fear as a tool to stir up his conservative base. He’s taking his doomsday approach to a new extreme, predicting World War III and other catastrophes.

This is classic Republican messaging — fear minorities so that you don’t notice the rich folks picking your pocket

  • garrettEnglish
    26•3 months ago

    Honestly, the US is largely safer than it’s ever been. Not sure why this is a constant drumbeat but folks will buy it up, I suppose.

    • @[email protected]OP
      21•3 months ago

      Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don’t get that it’s somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.

      • garrettEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        And they certainly don’t understand that safety has emerged from better public services but so it goes.

    • @[email protected]
      -1•3 months ago

      The dems haven’t been counter-messaging against the republicans bullshit. In 2022, the dem message was “fund the police”, and now they’re campaigning on shutting the border down and building a wall.

      You can’t outflank the republicans from the right. People who like that shit are going to vote republican anyways. Dems can promise to transfer every school’s budget to the police, and republicans will still get those voters when they promise to double it.

      Every time the dems talk about how tough they’ll be on crime, they’re admitting that the essential republican stance is better than their own.

      • garrettEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        I agree with this. You can make a competent, easily digestible message that public safety, better quality of life, etc. comes from investing in common public services. Crime goes down when there’s better public health and education.

  • @Donjuanme
    10•3 months ago

    Both sides are very fearful, one of what he tells them to be fearful of, the other of what he’s said he’s going to do.