Instead, it’s that Trump’s politics are almost entirely predicated on attempting to frighten people. From his campaign announcement rife with Mexican “rapists” to his first three years in office, during which time the nation was constantly imperiled by terrorist immigrants and immigrant terrorists, Trumpism is fundamentally about fearmongering.
“You see what’s happening on the other side,” he said. “They want to take everything away. They want to destroy everything we’ve built. We’ve got the most successful country in our history. They want to take it away.”
A warning about the Second Amendment: “The Democrats want to take away the guns. They want to take away everyone’s gun. They want to destroy the Second Amendment.”
“While the socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American health care and your Social Security,” he said, “my administration is protecting your Social Security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great health care, and that’s what we’re getting.”
Trump claims, “want to treat illegal aliens, people that come into our country illegally, better than they want to treat our military and our veterans. … They want open borders, they don’t care about crime. … They want to take away your health care.”
