He may not be interested in persecution himself, but he knows the people who vote for him tend to feel that way. They need an enemy, they need someone to hate, they need a scapegoat they can blame the vanishing of the American Dream on. And he is providing them with one.
I really can't believe you don't see this, Rob. Blaming the foreigner, the other, the stranger, for all our problems is the oldest tactic in the book. Divide and conquer. Set one tribe against another, sow discord. Hate, anger and fear are powerful emotions, easily manipulated.
Trump himself may not be a racist, but I'd be willing to bet half of the people who support him are, or can be moved to the persecution of others if they can be convinced those others are the people responsible for their lives unraveling. America needs its traitors, they need to believe they've been stabbed in the back and now they've had enough and they are going to take their country back. Bigotry is not restricted to the color of the skin, or to national origin, or to social or economic class, or to rural vs urban populations. Just listen to the man talk....how can you miss it?
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- Yup, that's us.
- One word for you: RFRA
- Trying to defeat a stereotype by using a stereotype
- Next your're going to tell me it's a logical fallacy. n/t
- The Right seems to have just discovered the concept of "stereotype".
- Sadly, so true...