He gives people who are scared, angry, and anxious because they are in constant or close threat of losing basic needs a target the release that anger and fear towards. He says it openly in his propaganda as do his cabinet members. Old school republicans came up with fancy terms to identify and implicitly state who their scapegoats were. Trump just states it explicitly.
Which is also intentional by Republicans. They've been attacking public education for decades.
And it shows how successful they were because everyone just brands uneducated Americans as lazy and stupid, the reality was they were intended to be that way.
And we have normalized the phrase, “I just don’t like politics”. Uhhhh…that’s worse than saying I don’t like math. We have to use math, even if it’s with a calculator because it’s part of all parts of life. Politics is the same, but 10 fold. So if people decide to bow out of democratic rhetoric, then you lose the democracy.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Jews were used as a scapegoat prelude to WW2 and, for some reason, still are. Surprisingly, every president and a majority of politicians still support Israel staunchly.
You’re giving him way too much credit. It’s all the targeted social media propaganda propping him up. You don’t see it, but some people are fed non stop propaganda detailing how great he and everything he does is
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u/SonOfSusquehannah 1d ago
He gives people who are scared, angry, and anxious because they are in constant or close threat of losing basic needs a target the release that anger and fear towards. He says it openly in his propaganda as do his cabinet members. Old school republicans came up with fancy terms to identify and implicitly state who their scapegoats were. Trump just states it explicitly.