The Republican Strategy for Reactive Fear

Donald Trump has been playing this game since 2015 when he came down the escalator and started telling people that they needed to be afraid of people from Mexico who are murderers and rapists. But it's not just Donald Trump. George W. Bush did it telling us that we needed to be fears of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Ronald Reagan did it when, you know, he was constantly warning us about liberals. Richard Nixon with his war on drugs. This is why every fascist movement in history follows this very simple script. Identify an enemy within. Make sure that that enemy within is among the least powerful people in society. For Republicans right now, that's trans people, teachers, you