Stats Don’t Back Up Republicans’ Crime-Wave Rhetoric
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All in all, GOP fearmongering about crime parallels the party’s inflation alarms based on selective and outdated numbers.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.
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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.