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Trump’s fear mongering and fiery rhetoric is designed to heighten emotions and pit citizens against citizens. If there’s one thing that Trump understands, it’s how to benefit politically from manufacturing fear and division. It is front and center psychological manipulation for the benefit of discord, division and dissension.
Trump provokes anxiety and fear and hate in many ways. He fuels his base's fears about minorities and dissimilar others, calling Hispanic immigrants “murderers and rapists,” and by stating in blanket-fashion that “Islam hates us", "Democrats are bad people", "the press is the enemy of the people" and on and on and on.
IMO he relishes being cruelly antagonistic and being the person who creates hateful conflict as it makes him feel powerful and important. He likes thinking he is the actual fear to some. His narcissistic personality and unpredictable, unrestrained behavior makes him a dangerous commander-in-chief. Trump’s policies and willingness to please his most extreme supporters threatens the rights of gays, transgender folk, and women across the country. This creates an anxiety and a place of disharmony which is pitting people against people.
By constantly emphasizing existential threat, Trump fuels the fears of Americans who will bolster their support for him in an attempt to feel safer and falsely superior and more powerful themselves. While this strategy keeps his supporters energized and loyal, the whole country suffers from the prejudice, aggression, and division it creates.
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