Tag: fearmongering

Ultimately, the tragedy is not that decency is no longer an attribute that politicians should project, whether falsely or truly. The tragedy is that the public no longer seems to care.

Americans fight viciously over politics, but not since the 1968 election has there been such a widespread sense of trauma accompanying a race. That year was scarred by assassinations, riots, and war. This one has been scarred by Donald Trump.

The portrait Mr. Trump painted of the United States was that of a country overrun by cronyism and crime – much of the latter perpetrated by “illegal immigrants” or terrorists posing as refugees – and whose politicians are either too weak, gullible or corrupt to do anything about it.

The fear industry has conquered the United States. The nation now sees itself in an eternal war against a sea of enemies.