All in all, GOP fearmongering about crime parallels the party’s inflation alarms based on selective and outdated numbers. It can be effective, unfortunately; during 2022, Gallup found that 78 percent of Americans thought crime was higher nationally than in 2021. Turns out that just wasn’t the case.
That has never held them back
Still waiting for that migrant caravan…
Oh, just you wait. It will get here in a few more weeks.
Just in time for their health care plan and infrastructure week.
Have to scale back the ambition now. The GOP needs these stunts to get a new Speaker.
Right around this time next year.
It’s crazy how effective fear mongering is. My mom is not a conservative woman by any means. She hates Trump and his kind with a passion. But she was still captivated by the migrant caravan. It took me several weeks to get her to recognize that it was purely a story running up to the election to play on people’s fears and get their votes.
Because there is no “truth” in a media landscape where there is no penalty for lying.
There is only propaganda.