A scary incident should not be cause for irrational fearmongering.
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There's a reason fearmongering is a way of waging war.
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When will voters see through his xenophobic fearmongering and dishonesty?
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But the fearmongering and misinformation about immigrants rarely matches reality.
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But those campaigning to leave dismissed such talk as fearmongering.
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Decades of fearmongering about Democrats and religious liberals have worked.
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This kind of fearmongering is a staple of American politics.
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Weinstein's positions have been assailed by peers as counterproductive fearmongering.
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Mr. Sanders should leave the politics of fearmongering to Donald Trump.
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His fearmongering has cemented majority opposition to his proposed border wall.
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The ad "Complicit" is nothing more than fearmongering, pure and simple.
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But not every undertaker is fighting change with fearmongering or tut-tutting.
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Republicans are running the table after years of leftist hyperbole and fearmongering.
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Steve Bannon and Breibart's brand of fearmongering has no place in government.
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Enrique Krauze, the historian, said that he was outraged by Trump's fearmongering.
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"It's the worst kind of fearmongering done, in my judgment," he added.
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In place of nuance we are left with hype and potential fearmongering.
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He began running bizarre, fearmongering ads about Hispanic gangs and sanctuary cities.
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The weeks leading up the eclipse were a frenzy of traffic fearmongering.
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So when politicians claim immigrants threaten American workers, they're usually just fearmongering.
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But this time, he was not content merely to engage in fearmongering.
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Fearmongering resonates with his political base, particularly white voters without college degrees.
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I'm glad someone had the guts to hit back on the GOP's fearmongering.
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The themes were familiar, from Brussels-bashing to fearmongering about African birth rates.
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But more to the point, fearmongering is no substitute for vision and leadership.
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I'm calling this process, this procedure is absolutely based on bigotry and fearmongering.
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President Trump gets this, and he exploits it to the hilt by fearmongering.
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This is not an emergency, and the President's fearmongering doesn't make it one.
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In Japan, vaccination rates for HPV vaccine plummeted in recent years due to fearmongering.
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His campaign was a lurching display of rage and fearmongering against immigrants and Muslims.
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Fearmongering is being used to justify racial profiling and violations of Americans' constitutional rights.
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Despite conservative fearmongering and doomsday predictions, the Raise the Wage Act, introduced by Rep.
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They're not selling substance — it's fearmongering and puffery and bullshit narratives about rugged individualism.
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There was also the fearmongering and the racial pandering and the "welfare queen" rhetoric.
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By the time Monday rolled around, "Fox & Friends" was saying Thunberg was just fearmongering.
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Mainstream media does a fine job of fearmongering about drugs, but the danger is real.
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But using fearmongering as an excuse to completely dismantle the lottery does not do that.
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But the idea that the ERA would instantly eliminate all restrictions on abortion is fearmongering.
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These actions were roundly criticized as political stunts, and the president was accused of fearmongering.
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"BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL," he tweeted, like some kind of fearmongering Mother Goose.
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Advocates warn that sort of fearmongering could snowball as counting begins in earnest next spring.
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Despite the lies and fearmongering, almost every American would benefit immeasurably from Medicare for All.
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But with the fearmongering of this administration, and all that ICE is doing, people are scared.
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The former is profiting from the worst kind of fearmongering; the latter is an unrepentant racist.
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I'd like to believe the Blue-Eyed Liar's naïve optimism would trump the Bullshitter's feckless fearmongering.
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Will UKIP's Paul Nuttall be exposed as the fearmongering, misery-spreading Boggart that he really is?
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Snakes in general are subject to hyperbole and fearmongering, and Florida's python problem is no different.
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At the time, plastic surgeons criticized Chung's reporting, calling it fearmongering because it lacked scientific evidence.
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Meanwhile, Trump is repeating his fearmongering about immigrants that lost Republicans 40 seats in the House.
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Deficit fearmongering and stringent anti-spending ideology were in; devil-may-care tax-cutting was out.
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Immigration advocacy groups had condemned the GoFundMe campaign as a xenophobic result of fearmongering about immigrants.
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During the swine flue outbreak, fearmongering against people of Mexican descent was rampant, according to Cisneros.
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President Trump honed a fearmongering message on immigration, laden with falsehoods, ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.
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Britain's Brexit vote and Donald Trump's election in 2016 demonstrated the ascendance of demagogy and fearmongering.
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All of this fearmongering, of course, is also great for promoting "natural" cures for the disease.
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It's up to businesses and governments to move past fearmongering and naïve optimism and get practical.
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When it comes to fearmongering about immigration, Mr. Trump is a newbie compared with Mr. Kobach.
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Deficit fearmongering and stringent anti-spending ideology were in, devil-may-care tax cutting was out.
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His Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, ran a campaign that included fearmongering about immigrants and defending Confederate statues.
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"I find it questionable that New Scientist publishes a fearmongering article in these times," Dramsch told Gizmodo.
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Variety interviewed the cast and creatives involved, and most of them had similarly fearmongering things to say.
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On the campaign trail, Sanders has accused Biden of "fearmongering" and spreading "misinformation" about Medicare for All.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge on Wednesday criticized what he called "fearmongering" over migrants and refugees.
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It emphatically does not mean hysterical fearmongering of the sort promptly voiced by politicians like Donald Trump.
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The coronavirus has already made people of Asian descent around the world targets of racism and fearmongering.
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The investigations cost many their livelihoods, and the term "McCarthyism" has since become synonymous with unfounded fearmongering.
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Electoral gerrymandering, curtailing press freedoms and fearmongering create a toxic mix to consolidate rule over the people.
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Critics have said the video, which has been viewed more than three million times, traffics in fearmongering.
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In the following weeks and months, the fearmongering grew, and officials increasingly took to using racist epithets.
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It's been a moniker for xenophobic, angry, and fearmongering rhetoric that's pitted white majorities against marginalized communities.
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It's fearmongering, it's hate, and it's anger mixed with a dangerous political climate that allowed Hitler to rise.
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Trump would be heralded as a mastermind, and fearmongering on immigration would be the path forward for Republicans.
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First, it's important to understand that a lot of the hype about sulfates is fearmongering, plain and simple.
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Despite his fearmongering about celebrities falling victim to "cancel culture," it's not like Chappelle has actually been shunned.
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But then he seemed to tacitly refer to Trump when he spoke against nationalism, against fearmongering, against isolationism.
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In 2015, she began supporting Trump because of his condemnation of radical Islam, despite his blatantly racist fearmongering.
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Their misleading claims and fearmongering are not helpful to those looking to provide communities with serious, viable solutions.
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In 6900, with fearmongering in his voice, Gore predicted the world would be a "frying pan" by 2628.
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Targeting Chinese food Perhaps the most widespread form of xenophobia comes in fearmongering, sensationalist stereotypes about Chinese food.
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Nuclear power proponents — both inside and outside China — argue that such concerns are overblown, if not downright fearmongering.
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As of Tuesday, he was still very much alive and kicking, the proto-Trumpian embodiment of fearmongering ethnonationalism.
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Experts say that people who skip vaccination — due to vaccine fearmongering, poor health systems and laziness — are to blame.
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The only solution to this madness is public media, which, contrary to right-wing fearmongering, doesn't mean state-controlled.
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It's obviously ridiculous, but we were trying to call out how fearmongering a lot of these sites can be.
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"He's warning America of [Poisons vaccines] and the dangers," read another bullet point, referencing Trump's unfounded fearmongering about vaccines.
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He also defended his fearmongering in the Washington Post by saying he's just giving concerned parents information they want.
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Unable to oust the president or deny his accomplishments, Democrats allegedly have resorted to conspiracies, smear tactics, and fearmongering.
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The plant is surrounded by so much misinformation that it's often hard to separate fact from flackery or fearmongering.
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Contrary to opponents' fearmongering, economic forecasters found that Arizona's wage increase benefited the state's economy, especially food service employees.
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As a political figure, Trump has always been a race-baiting, fearmongering demagogue and that's not going to change.
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The language used by sites like Breitbart make crystal clear that this is all about demographic mythmaking and fearmongering.
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The crudeness of Fox's racist fearmongering has not stopped it from being one of America's most reliably moneymaking media businesses.
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Fearmongering and race-baiting about MS-13 gangs, Confederate statues, and sanctuary cities are divisive messages that worked for Trump.
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"Technology destroying privacy" is an idea that gets tossed around a lot, and one that I think is mostly fearmongering.
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"I don't think that I'm fearmongering and I'm pleased that the government is moving in the same direction," he said.
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In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a study thinly linking the MMR vaccine to autism, which launched a media fearmongering frenzy.
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Education officials dismiss the need for such extracurricular education, regarding it as fearmongering designed to sell sessions with a tutor.
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"I think as time goes on some of the fearmongering is going to be proven to be baseless," Pai said.
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"It's exactly like the panic and fearmongering you heard for two years over Russia meddling in and stealing the election."
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Its attacks on "globalists," fearmongering about Latino criminality, and condemnation of the Republican leadership direct people in the right direction.
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Corker's more relaxed attitude about Syrian refugees goes directly against Trump's more fearmongering tactics toward immigration from the Middle East.
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During the segment on Monday, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade pivoted from the Florida story to fearmongering about marijuana in general.
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"Let me be clear: Fearmongering notwithstanding, HAO does not cut Medicaid funding," Verma wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday.
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The fearmongering around them plays into what philosophers call "the naturalistic fallacy," a belief that anything natural is more morally righteous.
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She's white; he's Mexican-American, an ideal person to counter Trump's racist fearmongering about immigration and calls to build a wall.
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The propaganda and fearmongering we're seeing isn't new, but powerful tools are spreading it farther and more rapidly than ever before.
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Today, America finds itself with an executive branch that ascended to the White House, in part, thanks to fearmongering about immigrants.
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But, like much of the fearmongering out there, it's worth doing some basic debunking before you share this nugget of doom.
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I've often denounced conservative fearmongering about Muslims and refugees, and the liberal hostility toward evangelicals seems rooted in a similar insularity.
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And thankfully the voters of Virginia sent a message that they reject Trump's fearmongering and divisiveness by electing Democrat Ralph Northam.
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He is almost Democratic in his approach to Social Security, yet he is anti-immigrant, bigoted and fearmongering in other ways.
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Maybe, maybe not; it's hard to predict" — but notes that Sanders's counterarguments to Clinton's fearmongering about renegade states are "perfectly reasonable.
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But, like much of the fearmongering out there, it's worth doing some basic debunking before you share this nugget of doom.
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People who live along the border are used to politicians — at both the local and state level — fearmongering about their hometowns.
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Fearmongering builds power for politicians and pundits, profits for media companies and defense contractors and publicity for social activists and reformers.
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Racial bigotry, fearmongering and scapegoating are no longer subterranean in our political discourse; the dog whistles have been replaced by bullhorns.
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It was more xenophobia-tinged fearmongering from a man who had spent the previous years questioning President Obama's place of birth.
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Trump's fearmongering about immigration didn't prove popular with voters during a midterm cycle in which Democrats flipped control of the House.
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Twenge has been on the youth-scare beat for a while, and it's notable that she has now turned to postmillennial fearmongering.
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In a highly produced announcement video titled "Brave Wins," Gillibrand contrasts an optimistic agenda toward progress with the fearmongering policies of Trump.
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Such substantive issues as unemployment, housing and the cost of living are being virtually ignored in favor of fearmongering and populist pandering.
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All this high-level fearmongering has prompted many in the media to suggest that we're entering an unprecedented era of presidential paranoia.
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The political style of Trumpism, with its fearmongering, friend-enemy rhetoric, and relentless hyperbole, has accelerated the transformation of conservatism into reaction.
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Anyone who is willing to use racism and fearmongering to achieve power is unfit, even if he stops for a few months.
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Fearmongering of the loss of livelihood has caused many to engage in vitriolic rhetoric against anyone who is perceived as a threat.
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An industry of anti-Muslim fearmongering has helped stoke and perpetuate moral panic about Islam taking over America and subverting American values.
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Now, as the region grapples with another deadly virus, authorities in Australia are trying to avoid a repeat of 2003's fearmongering.
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Given Gillespie's fearmongering, imitation-Trump campaign, this was a good outcome for Virginia, the nation and, in the long-run, the GOP.
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Despite fearmongering, these are safe medications that doctors have been using for decades for cisgender children who go through puberty too early.
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He built his whole political career so far on scapegoating and fearmongering and otherizing migrants, and that's very different from Barack Obama.
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I saw the same thing in the months leading up the Brexit vote earlier this year: the lying, the fearmongering, the hysteria.
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Sanctimonious critics are blasting Donald Trump today for what they say was excessive fearmongering in his GOP convention acceptance speech on Thursday night.
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"I don't want to knock Cosmo, but historically, women have been spoken to in a way that is kind of fearmongering," Amoruso said.
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The fearmongering from the fake news media and free-market zealots misses the mark on why President Trump is fighting for these tariffs.
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During his campaign, Trump happily jumped on gay nationalism to perform anti-Muslin fearmongering, claiming he would protect American gays from homophobic Muslims.
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With his remarks, Carlson is simply engaging in fearmongering, in the hope of turning attention away from Trump's widely panned summit with Putin.
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In 1988, more mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws were passed, again with bipartisan support and fearmongering and little concern over cost or effectiveness.
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His fearmongering was based more on fiction than on facts, but it made him head of the Bureau of Narcotics for 30 years.
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Self-appointed spokespeople for the economy have been fearmongering about the markets being cut in half if Warren is elected, which is ridiculous.
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" At a town hall meeting, he said "this is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia ... and fearmongering.
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Prosecutors defend New York's current system not on its merits but with fearmongering, arguing that reforms will leave witnesses and victims at risk.
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A lot of the content was typical Trump: touting overstated and false assertions about the economy, fearmongering about immigration and socialism, characteristic bragging.
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You can set an arbitrary deadline, throw in a fearmongering female conservative icon and Ronald Reagan — and still, from the ashes, it will rise.
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Meanwhile, Petro and his populist platform have drawn comparisons from fearmongering critics to the late Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who Petro once admired.
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Fox Business' Trish Regan denounced it as a "scam," and Fox News host Laura Ingraham urged her audience to ignore the "left's coronavirus fearmongering."
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But while Park's lactic fearmongering might seem like the bygone panic of another era, the associations of beards with disease have proven strangely resilient.
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They accused him of fearmongering in order to delay or at least reconfigure the March 31 election that he had seemed certain to lose.
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Clearly Trump has not specifically endorsed indiscriminate violence, but he's used jingoism and fearmongering about immigrants in a way that's let white nationalists thrive.
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Facebook is tightening up its rules on ads that reference the novel coronavirus, in an attempt to curtail misinformation and fearmongering about the outbreak.
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That's right: despite the fiction and fearmongering you've heard from the other party's nominee, violent crime has gone down since President Obama took office.
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But when combined with his fearmongering about a "rigged election" and voter fraud (which, yes, includes more lies), it gets a lot more worrisome.
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But when combined with his fearmongering about a "rigged election" and voter fraud (which, yes, includes more lies), it gets a lot more worrisome.
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"This whole speech, with its nativism, its fearmongering, and especially its self-aggrandizing in the face of tragedy, feels like a new low," Colbert said.
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Their election would be a milestone in any year, but is especially symbolic as a rebuke to President Donald Trump's fearmongering about Islam and immigrants.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered the brief Democratic response and accused Trump of fearmongering and taking the government hostage.
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Their election would be a milestone in any year but is especially symbolic as a rebuke to President Donald Trump's fearmongering about Islam and immigrants.
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WebMD has a reputation for fearmongering — look up your symptoms, and in most cases you'll find something that makes you think you're going to die.
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Everyone deserves the right to make choices about our bodies, our lives and our families — and no amount of shaming or fearmongering will change that.
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If I were in Congress, I'd be standing against that and standing up for diplomacy and sound decision making instead of fearmongering and saber rattling.
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"The level of groupthink, fearmongering, coercive peer pressure, and über-nationalism has not been seen since the halcyon days of 2002 and 20163," he argued.
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For many election cycles, evangelicals have supported candidates whose campaigns were rooted in the same xenophobia, fearmongering, belligerence and cruelty that Mr. Trump has championed.
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Others pointed to its fearmongering, like Wall Street Journal reporter Bret Stephens: This speech is a relentless, unyielding, humorless, hectoring appeal to fear and loathing.
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Fearmongering about immigration was one of President Donald Trump's signature themes during a midterm cycle where Republicans ultimately suffered a stinging rebuke in the House.
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Now, psychiatrists and advocates worry that a new wave of fearmongering will leave hikikomori even more vilified and painted falsely as prone to heinous crimes.
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But to be fair, nuance is very hard to convey in a public discourse that is extremely polarized and characterized by mutual fearmongering and trivialization.
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While the coronavirus upends the lives of millions of Americans, the National Rifle Association is doing what it does best: fearmongering to arm more Americans.
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"Designated Survivor," in contrast, made its debut in September, when the idea that Mr. Trump and his fearmongering campaign could succeed still seemed far-fetched.
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And yet, as administration officials made the case on Monday for the revised measures, there was no hint of contrition and plenty of reckless fearmongering.
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The fearmongering grew, sometimes perpetuated by authorities themselves but largely by the media, which has tended to report the clown hoaxes with straight-faced solemnity.
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He's also given his platform to vaccine deniers and fearmongering pseudoscience purveyors like the Food Babe (known to scientists as "the Jenny McCarthy of food").
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The FBI Can&apost Stop Fearmongering About EncryptionNever in the past century has the FBI ever had greater access to consumer data than it does today.
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Instead of a contest of ideas, there is the tribal outrage of social media, leftwing zealotry on America's campuses and fearmongering and misinformation on the right.
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On nearly every issue, these voters tend to lean liberal—or at least liberal enough to think Republican culture wars and Fox News fearmongering are bonkers.
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While nothing anyone says will reverse the outcome of the election, China's rejection of Trump's climate fearmongering vindicates science and the people who believe in it.
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May's response in the wake of terrorist attacks was to pledge to dramatically curtail on civil liberties, a transparent, breathtakingly cynical, and shameful bit of fearmongering.
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Nutritionist Ann Louise Gittlemen is basically your mom's version of Food Babe—a fearmongering opportunist who uses buzzwords like "organic" to freak people out about modernity.
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In Donald Trump's world, calling Mexicans rapists, fearmongering about "unknown Middle Easterners" in a Central American caravan, and describing black communities as hellholes is not racist.
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One reason is that everyone feels a little bit vulnerable in a restroom, so it becomes fertile ground for scare tactics and fearmongering to take hold.
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Hate crimes in the 10 largest American cities were up last year, and fearmongering talk of "massive demographic changes" has made its way into the mainstream.
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The emotional route tends to be discussed in largely negative terms, with Republicans accused of fearmongering on issues ranging from gay marriage to crime to immigration.
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In this sense, it's crucial that Biden condemned Trump's xenophobic fearmongering and his disdain for facts, science and reality-based international cooperation in the same passage.
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In the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte weaponized rumors, fearmongering, and hate on the platform on his way to the presidency, as revealed by BuzzFeed News last year.
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Clinton has an incumbent's qualifications, but she hasn't won broad trust, and lately, as her campaign's momentum has slackened, she has struggled to counter Trump's fearmongering.
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Nicholas Kristof This newspaper has periodically, to its shame, succumbed to the kind of xenophobic fearmongering that President Trump is now trying to make American policy.
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Reverend Aaron Stevens, the head of the Scottish mission to Budapest, said Sunday's march remembering Haining presented an opportunity to speak up against prejudice, intolerance or fearmongering.
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After all the fearmongering about then-candidate Obama's origins, it still didn't scare enough Democrats and moderates or mobilize enough Republicans to give John McCain the win.
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Today, America faces an enemy that uses hate and fearmongering not only to strike at the heart of American values, but to sow mistrust among loyal Americans.
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They're seizing on this anxiety to advocate for increased military engagement in the Middle East, raising the rhetorical stakes with calls for "carpet bombing" and Islamophobic fearmongering.
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Despite this, Ocasio-Cortez and her allies wish to confuse the public by fearmongering and demanding that if we don't take radical action now, we're all doomed.
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Make sure you get your nutrition advice from actual registered nutritionists (R/ANutr) or registered dietitians (RD) to reduce the chances of you following incorrect fearmongering advice.
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After a string of midterm campaign stops where the message centered on fearmongering about immigrants, Trump suffered a stinging defeat when Republicans lost control of the House.
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Fearmongering about immigrants has long hinged on the notion that the border is a porous, lawless place — even though it is as safe and secure as ever.
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That is a balance Mr. Trump has systematically disrupted, whether with Saudi Arabia, or in his fearmongering on asylum seekers, or in his denial of climate change.
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Many Republican Party insiders still look upon Gillespie fondly given his honorable history, but this is precisely why his fearmongering and stoking of prejudice was so damaging.
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Back in 1980, however, Reagan's tough, nationalist stances on foreign policy aroused the same condemnation of "fearmongering" currently emanating from the world's enlightened critics of Mr. Trump.
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Most of these constitutional relics, present in 85033 states, are known as Blaine amendments, birthed in the late 1800s out of a movement of religious-based fearmongering.
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He's also given his platform to vaccine deniers and fearmongering pseudoscience purveyors like the Food Babe Vani Hari (known to scientists as "the Jenny McCarthy of food").
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Even as our constitutional rights are stripped away in service of the president's anti-immigrant fearmongering, no one had ever been arrested for accompanying an asylum-seeker before.
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"Closed circuit messaging networks like WhatsApp and ShareChat make it harder to check and debunk fake news, and that magnifies any potential impact of fearmongering," Agrawal tells me.
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Instead, it now looks like an early trailer for the feature film of his presidential run — full of fearmongering, grand promises, and personal attacks when things went sour.
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The fact that the economy has continued to roar despite the fearmongering of the "free traders" SHOULD be a recipe for strong GOP elections in 2018 and 2020.
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Trump's relentless misogyny, his fearmongering about Muslims, and his willingness to indulge racist tropes about black people is exactly what these fringe right figures need to become mainstream.
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Also, racially motivated terror groups such as the KKK used fearmongering and violence as a way to keep minorities away from the polls, often without any legal repercussions.
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Public health officials who have been battling the virus in Congo say the rumors and fearmongering have become a regular occurrence any time a new disease breaks out.
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Most important, we have learned that the old fearmongering tropes about socialism are no longer enough to whip Republican votes for a major plank of their own platform.
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I mean, obviously, you're in the crosshairs of a lot of tariff fearmongering, but Deere is a good company for the long term because it feeds the world.
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It is base fearmongering, designed to terrify people into voting for an authoritarian who wants to punish huge numbers of Muslims for the actions of a tiny few.
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It was a despicable stunt, its fearmongering recalling the racist but effective Willie Horton ad that George H. W. Bush ran on in his successful 1988 presidential campaign.
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His Op-Ed begins: This newspaper has periodically, to its shame, succumbed to the kind of xenophobic fearmongering that President Trump is now trying to make American policy.
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Fearmongering may get viewers and votes, and sell ads and newspapers, but it is harming the economy and, more importantly, the people who are part of that economy.
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The Republican Convention in Cleveland last week was like a four-day-long Fox-fest, full of fearmongering, demagoguery, xenophobia, third-rate show biz, pandering, and raw anger.
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The McAfee antivirus empire was built on its founder's calculated media fearmongering about Michelangelo, an early '90s virus that he threatened would cripple thousands, if not millions, of machines.
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Mr. Trump, in his brash arrogance, obviously speaks to a large faction of Republican voters and, albeit more bombastically, expresses the fearmongering and intolerance of his fellow Republican candidates.
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Now that the federal government seems poised to join the party, the American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents have gone from fearmongering to near-hysteria in its opposition.
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So a year ago, I imagined that conservatism was sclerotic but ideologically committed, and that liberalism was wrong about the world but pretty good at fearmongering and voter targeting.
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Those arguments include fearmongering about how coed locker rooms could become standard and alimony for women outlawed — arguments that are hard to take seriously but that nonetheless helped Mrs.
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"Stewart's fearmongering and division-sowing campaign will turn many Virginians to the Democratic ticket," said Schuyler VanValkenburg, a Democratic state legislator who lives in Mr. Brat's district, the Seventh.
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That means Trump's fearmongering about immigrants and his obsession with a wall that he failed to get Mexico to pay for are not playing well with the American public.
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Donald Trump ended the fourth and final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention with one of the darkest, most foreboding, and aggressively fearmongering speeches in modern political memory.
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The lead up to the vote has been pitched at just the wrong level of "let's build a wall" style racism and apocalyptic fearmongering, represented by Vote Leave and Leave.
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Laura Ingraham has long stopped pretending that her views are anything but white nationalist fearmongering aimed at aging racists in an effort to drum up votes for Trump in 224.
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Fearmongering, not rational discourse about a democratic deficit, propelled the UK out of the EU. And it is exactly the same that could thrust Donald Trump into the White House.
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Just as importantly, Clinton appears to be misinterpreting Trump's appeal: It's his toxic policy proposals and naked fearmongering, not just his wealth and outsider status, that draw voters to him.
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This "missing generation," as Jessica Wright called it, not only struggles without the supports they need, but the undercounting lends credence to the fearmongering about an epidemic of autism today.
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The current shutdown — which Trump has been threatening for months — is over the border wall, a campaign promise Trump made in 2016 as part of a fearmongering anti-immigration agenda.
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" Leiba does not agree with that characterization of the EWG, saying they just want customers to understand they have options: "We are staunch in the fact that we're not fearmongering.
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Donald Trump has offered virtually nothing except fearmongering and notions that could make matters worse, including a proposal for "extreme vetting" that could prevent most Muslims from immigrating to America.
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As Election Day approaches, Gillespie's campaign has largely abandoned the tax cut that was once the centerpiece of his platform, pivoting to a strategy of fearmongering and stoking cultural divisions.
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Passed amid racist fearmongering, the limits on Chinese immigration set the precedent for the restrictive, abusive, and dehumanizing way all nonwhite immigrants have be treated by the U.S. ever since.
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Trump's fans may pride him on his directness, but it's always of the all-caps sort, predicated on showmanship rather than sincerity, fearmongering rather than comfort, fracture rather than unity.
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AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end-of-days fearmongering, Alex Jones is being called to account.
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A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that these original policies also applied to ads, but that the rules around using fearmongering to sell products are a more recent update.
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He claims he began re-evaluating that fearmongering — versions of which have contributed to at least one bomb plot in Islamberg — on his way back to Infowars HQ in Austin.
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Fortunately, most Americans, weary of our national epidemic of unsupported claims, reject prohibitionists' fearmongering and support a regulated system of adult cannabis use as a more humane and effective approach.
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There's a lot of baseless fearmongering about chemicals in consumer products now, and certainly there are lawyers who will try to capitalize on this latest bad news for Johnson & Johnson.
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He angrily addresses what he calls President Donald Trump's policy of fearmongering and quickly navigates to facts that show that refugees are among the safest people to enter the United States.
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Trump rejected the idea he was "fearmongering" or using the issue for political purposes, but his escalating rhetoric in the waning days of the campaign season calls that denial into question.
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This fearmongering tactic has been used by conservatives, particularly in North Carolina, to oppose legislation that grants LGBTQ people legal protections against discrimination in the workplace, schools, housing, and public accommodations.
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And so far, Trump has chosen a white nationalist who ran a website that specialized in fearmongering about nonwhite Americans and a career political operative with no experience running a bureaucracy.
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If fearmongering about a Muslim politician can also torpedo a candidate in a race for Democratic leadership, they may need to take a long look at their own party as well.
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But it's been criticized for perceived fearmongering along the way by some cosmetic chemists and others, as well as for rating inconsistently and giving ratings when there is limited data available.
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As a leader, it's my duty to call out this administration's anti-immigrant fearmongering for what it is: a racist lie," Schaaf wrote, also denying the "obstruction of justice" allegation. "Mr.
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As criticism of his administration's response to the crisis began mounting, his allies started accusing media and Democrats of fearmongering with the goal of destroying the stock market and undermining Trump.
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The clichés, the fearmongering, the unfortunate attempts at humor, the awkward candidates struggling to look human — it's enough to drive a person off the grid for the duration of election season.
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Dickerson asked him about whether Trump's rallies, which often entail attacks on his opponents and fearmongering about issues such as immigration and race, are an example of an attempt to unify.
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"There's a lot of deception and deliberate fearmongering going on here," said Doug Rand, a former Obama administration official who now helps families navigate the immigration system as co-founder of Boundless.
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Like Donald Trump's fearmongering that the movement for black lives stands against America's greatness for calling out institutional racism, Kaepernick calling out structural racism is framed as a matter of national loyalty.
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They insinuated that Flint's elected officials were fearmongering, playing up their problems so that the nearly bankrupt city could squeeze more money out of the state legislature to repair its water system.
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The ease with which many are able to use this event to deal in misinformation and fearmongering demonstrates that, when it comes to Guantánamo, the U.S. public is not paying enough attention.
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Amidst all the fearmongering over religious extremism, it's possible to hear whispers of older fears: The Italians are violent; the Chinese will never assimilate; Catholics want to place America under papal rule.
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It's unlikely that Fox will do the right thing with Carlson, Pirro, or their other anchors for whom racist and sexist fearmongering is practically an art form (and certainly a ratings bonanza).
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Unfortunately, the reaction to that round of Flamin' Hot Cheetos fearmongering seemed to be a nationwide belief that any troubling side effects should be ignored in favor of eating more Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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But Obama, who is not prone to hatchet jobs, instead presented a deeper, more intellectual contrast to Trump's fearmongering claim that America is broken and he's the only one who can fix it.
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He then goes from making fun of O'Malley's fearmongering to deciding the host knows the truth after all (which is roughly the rebooted mythology described above) over the course of about five hours.
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"I think that unfortunately we have people who are in the presidential race who are providing a platform for hate speech and fearmongering," said champion fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, according to The Daily Mail.
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Erik Voorhees, CEO of Swiss-based digital asset exchange ShapeShift, said Dimon's comment is a classic case of fearmongering because banks are concerned about bitcoin potentially taking away some of their core businesses.
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There's also more ... Pick your terms for it, whether it's pro-Trump propaganda out there, whether it's ... There's a little bit of fearmongering going on from liberal partisan sites about the Trump presidency.
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Whenever a societal problem becomes a national obsession, some adult will write a book about it for teenagers; usually the result is a Go Ask Alice–style stew of fearmongering and breathless sensationalism.
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But the fearmongering has less traction in this election, thinks Raimond Kaljulaid, a Centre Party MP. Young Russians are better integrated, and Estonian culture is doing well, with successful hip-hop artists and novelists.
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The newly official Republican nominee for president ended the fourth and final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention with one of the darkest, most foreboding, and aggressively fearmongering speeches in modern political memory.
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He has criticized Trump on Twitter in the past, condemning his repeated characterization of the media as "the enemy of the people" and pushing back on what he called Trump's "fearmongering" about migrant caravans.
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"Anheuser-Busch is fearmongering over a common beer ingredient that's used, by the way, in many of its own beers as a fermentation aid," Adam Collins, MillerCoors's vice president of communications, said on Thursday.
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Although the bill will certainly not go anywhere, especially during impeachment hearings, it is a welcome development from a Congress that, in 1937, rushed to prohibit marijuana based on spurious testimony and hyperbolic fearmongering.
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However, with these misgivings aside, both Cameron and Turnbull show that there is no reason why the GOP cannot stick to sincerely held conservative values whilst also avoiding the fearmongering rhetoric observed to date.
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But surges of murder in several major cities, televised protests against police behavior, and fearmongering by some presidential candidates have contributed to a perception –never mind the facts – that crime is rising ominously. 3.
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And so stats that are still pretty safe-sounding come off needlessly fearmongering to those of us who might choose that path (like a 0.65% increase in the likelihood of needing a hysterectomy, for example).
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Crime, illegal immigration Reality Check: Obama on crime and illegal immigration rates By Kate Grise and Sonam Vashi, CNN President Barack Obama accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of fearmongering without looking at the facts.
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Trump's birtherism was an early example of the way he now uses fearmongering and divisive rhetoric to amp up his popularity among his supporters, and how that rhetoric can contribute to violence down the line.
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But when the walls close in, you can always count on President Trump to do what any man in his position (his position being a rageful and insecure manchild) would: Turn again to racist fearmongering.
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Abortion-rights rhetoric sometimes falls into this trap, too, resorting to familiar ableist scapegoating and fearmongering tactics like calling out the "horrors" of parenting a disabled child in a misguided attempt at defending reproductive rights.
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In conversations with political strategists and other experts, a dystopian picture of the general election comes into view—one shaped by coordinated bot attacks, Potemkin local-news sites, micro-targeted fearmongering, and anonymous mass texting.
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Other Western leaders were relieved that it did not take the opportunity to back away as well—after all, it had once condemned climate-change talk as Western fearmongering aimed at undermining China's economic growth.
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Yet there's one boon for Trump, amid the growing scrutiny: He doesn't have to deal with the kind of fearmongering he helped stoke as a private citizen during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in Africa.
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And at this stage of a national campaign, the goal should be to explain to voters the vast benefits of a single-payer system rather than to prejudge the politics based on self-fulfilling fearmongering.
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In guarding against such toxic fearmongering, we should learn common conspiratorial tropes so that we can identify them early on, because what might start as jokes, can turn into rumors, and ultimately morph to massacres.
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Despite NASA officials' attempts to calm the public and rein in the media's fearmongering of the asteroid, according to the emails, some of the scientists were excited when they discovered how significant 2019 OK was.
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But rumors — and fearmongering — put those conservationists where so many academics in Iran have ended up: in jail, accused of using those cameras not to spy on cheetahs but to spy for a foreign government.
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But these small nods to whimsy, to gentleness, and to more vulnerable emotions are a vital reminder that humanity, despite all current appearances to the contrary, has evolved beyond fearmongering, violence, and hatred of the other.
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But in the 1980s, many socialists in the US weren't good at separating the fearmongering in the US from the very real life-or-death issues that plagued the Soviet Union, and Sanders was no exception.
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Even more extreme is Infowars, the fearmongering media empire of Trump ally Alex Jones, where right-wing conspiracies flourish and leak into public consciousness via affirmations by other right-wing media and, now, the president-elect.
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Meanwhile, the CDC on Monday defended steps it's taken to contain the coronavirus, including a ban on recent travelers to China, after Chinese officials accused the Trump administration of fearmongering and not helping contain the outbreak.
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In an obvious sign of desperation, Ms. Guadagno's campaign has met this pledge with a bitterly negative, fearmongering ad that accuses Mr. Murphy of welcoming in immigrants like one who murdered three people a decade ago.
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"The fund-raiser is a direct consequence of the president's yearslong fearmongering about immigrants," said Jonathan Ryan, executive director of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas nonprofit known as Raices.
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It's part of a growing tradition of right-wing fearmongering — what Vox's Dylan Matthews referred to last year as "apocalypse punditry" — that moves easily from the online fever swamps to the Oval Office and back again.
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Let me be clear: Trump made fearmongering of Muslims one of the main pillars of his 2016 campaign -- with comments like "Islam hates us" and false claims that Muslims in New Jersey cheered on 9/11.
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The decision came just two weeks after VICE News reported that hundreds of U.S. religious and political groups were using Facebook to meddle in Ireland's historic vote through a mixture of ad buys, misinformation campaigns, and fearmongering.
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Prosecutors have a lot of latitude because of the way the country responded to a rise in crime in the 1980s, and also because of fearmongering that really began with Richard Nixon in the '60s and '70s.
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Editorial When Donald Trump began his improbable run for president 15 months ago, he offered his wealth and television celebrity as credentials, then slyly added a twist of fearmongering about Mexican "rapists" flooding across the Southern border.
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Aaron Rodgers, the star quarterback and union representative for the Green Bay Packers, called Smith's view fearmongering, according to a person briefed on the call who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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Politically, inserting a four-day workweek into the climate debate could be a helpful counter to right-wing fearmongering about the bleak, hamburger-free world climate activists are allegedly plotting to create with a Green New Deal.
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"The government should be commended for remaining committed to strengthening environmental oversight in the face of misinformation and fearmongering from the oil and gas industry and some provincial leaders," said Tim Gray, executive director of Environmental Defence.
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But Kopser says that most people agree on common-sense gun control measures when you have a conversation with them, and his record allows him to break through the fearmongering that Democrats just want to take guns away.
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It'd be tempting to say that fearmongering about superintelligent AI is a deliberate ploy by tech behemoths like Google and Facebook to distract us from what they themselves are doing, which is selling their users' data to advertisers.
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President Donald Trump's fixation on the migrant caravan traveling to the United States is a clear example of that strategy — it's an attempt to shift the media's attention away from issues like health care with fearmongering about immigrants.
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"They don't have to be a platform for lying, for fearmongering, for inaccuracy, especially when children are put at risk," said Caplan, who has written about anti-vaccination groups' social media presence in the journal Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics.
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In a gubernatorial race in a supposedly deep-red state — with a voter-suppressing, race-baiting, fearmongering Republican nominee — a fierce, compassionate, qualified black woman has captured the interest of a nation and made it a razor-thin race.
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"Investors are coming back to the U.S. markets after a build-up of lot of fearmongering..this would be supportive of the dollar as well as treasury yields and stocks," said Stephen Innes, head of Asian trading at Oanda.
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WASHINGTON — If reaching a deal on border security was tough before this week's State of the Union address, it didn't get any easier after President Trump blasted Democrats and rallied his base with a fearmongering case for the wall.
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The theme of Monday night at the Republican National Convention was "Make America Safe Again," but as Trevor Noah of The Daily Show pointed out, the speakers weren't focused so much on safety solutions as they were on fearmongering.
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This is the exact same extremism and fearmongering that led the US government to round up and imprison tens of thousands of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Take, for example, the congressional testimony of Lt. Gen.
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He cannot continue to — not only what I saw in lie after lie, but also to mislead the public and use immigrants and use people of various different faiths to try to increase fear and just use fearmongering kind of politics.
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He knows when to hold them and when to fold them, and instead of embracing the traditional Galra approach of fearmongering, he presumably chooses to offer mercy and free will in an effort to earn his generals' and victims' loyalty.
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But as 32-year-old Lee Carter, the lone democratic socialist representative in the Virginia state legislature, tells film director Yael Bridge in her forthcoming Socialism: An American Story, Cold War fearmongering just doesn't work the way it used to.
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The impact of this fearmongering was staggering: MMR vaccination rates among Somali American children fell from 92 percent in 2004 to 42 percent in 303; during that time, the vaccination rate among all other children increased slightly to 89 percent.
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Faiz Shakir, Sanders's campaign manager, told Vanity Fair last month that the network's anchors and guests are "constantly undermining the Bernie Sanders campaign" by fearmongering about his policies and comparing his movement to, among other things, the rise of Nazi Germany.
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What has blocked the bill's progress on Capitol Hill, at least for now, is that ordinary Americans have begun to pay attention to the facts instead of the fearmongering and falsehoods emanating from the White House and the congressional leadership.
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There was also combativeness, and fearmongering about immigrants, and boasts specific and unquantifiable — America's economy was "the hottest," as if Mr. Trump were pitching a new hotel — and introductions of guest after emotional guest, all stuffing a Dagwood-sandwich speech.
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Gillespie's campaign, arguably spurred by a near-defeat to a primary candidate with close ties to the alt-right, ran a campaign that used fearmongering over NFL protests, Confederate memorials and Latino gangs to push moderate Virginians into his camp.
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But as it turns 35 amid consistent talk of travel bans and extreme vetting of refugees, under an administration that has more or less given its blessing for fearmongering against transgender people, Claremont and Anderson's story about persecuting mutants feels especially apropos.
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Trump announced the emergency declaration during a bizarre Rose Garden press conference earlier this month, in which he struck a fearmongering tone and falsely said drugs were being smuggled across the border -- the fact is they actually arrive through legal ports of entry.
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This has coincided with the emboldening of white supremacist groups in recent years, a development that has been further bolstered by President Trump's repeated fearmongering about various minority groups and his citations of white nationalist talking points in speeches and on Twitter.
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Having won election by stirring up hate and fear of immigrants, Trump can be counted on to keep fearmongering -- at a higher decibel -- as special counsel Robert Mueller, prosecutors around the country and Congressional committees issue reports and subpoenas and demands for documents.
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The chairman of the subcommittee holding the hearing, Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield of Kentucky—who resigned last year amid an ethics probe regarding "special favors" he gave to his lobbyist wife—kicked things off with fearmongering ripped straight from the D.A.R.E. program.
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Even though lawyers and policymakers recognize that strict sex offender laws are counterproductive, many politicians continue to cling to false narratives of the dangers of sex offenders — the same fearmongering that led to the expansion of sex offender laws in the 1990s.
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Last year, he made fearmongering about a purported "invasion" of migrants across the southern border a centerpiece of his closing campaign message ahead of the midterms — an election that cost his party 40 seats in the House and control of that chamber.
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In the field, the tag line wasn't resonating, which sent many campaigns into crisis management; in some of the closest races across the country, Republicans retreated to fearmongering and race-baiting about migrant caravans, MS-13 gangs, Confederate statues, and sanctuary cities.
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We need to make sure that more Americans are so upset by this ugly fearmongering, this open bigotry—to the point of the president of the United States using American soldiers to carry it out—that they will overwhelm polling places next week.
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Instead, the Democrats who are talking about health care while the president closes with fearmongering may know the secret of this election cycle: The same environment that's making liberals feel desperate is, for Democrats, one of the more fortunate of possible worlds.
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A bad culture war is one in which attitudinizing, tribalism and worst-case fearmongering float around unmoored from any specific legal question, in which mutual misunderstanding reigns and a thousand grievances are stirred up without a single issue being clarified or potentially resolved.
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In our newly published research in "Citizen Science: Theory and Practice," we argue that the trust vacuum created by an initial failure of government at all levels was partly filled by unscientific fearmongering and a victimization narrative that sometimes drowned out reason.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned the international community against heeding the advice of environmental activists — dismissing them as fearmongering "prophets of doom" who will cripple global economies and strip away individual liberties in what he described as a misguided mission to save the planet.
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Fortunately, there is an antidote to the fearmongering: it is the hope generated in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, shooting by the thousands of students and responsible gun reform supporters who have determined enough is enough and the time for real action is now.
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"On a subreddit for Uber drivers, people have debated whether to worry about the coronavirus over the course of the past month, bickering over whether the ridesharing industry would be affected by the "disruption" the CDC has warned, or whether the concerns amount to "fearmongering.
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For as long as the internet has proliferated viral chain letters, fearmongering urban legends, too-good-to-be-true morality tales, scams from Nigerian princes, and false conspiracy theories, one website has done more than almost any other to stem the tide of misinformation: Snopes.com.
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Soph's scripts, which she says she writes with a collaborator, are familiar: a mix of hatred toward Muslims, anti-black racism, Byzantine fearmongering about pedophilia, tissue-thin incel evolutionary psychology, and reflexive misanthropy that could have been copied and pasted from a thousand different 4chan posts.
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He declined to hold one last year — breaking with more than 20 years of White House tradition — amid the legal wrangling and fallout from the controversial executive order banning travel and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and after fearmongering against Muslims on the campaign trail.
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In fact, Kobach (who's led both fearmongering about immigrant voters and attempts to purge voter rolls in his home state) appeared to suggest some sort of use of the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on voter fraud when he met with Trump in November.
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It is fearmongering and it is trying to distract the American people from the job that elected officials are supposed to do, and that&aposs to improve the lives of the people that we represent, instead of casting blame and dispersion against a very vulnerable population.
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A win would be a triumph for the Latin community not only for bolstering the viability of Latino-based art in mainstream American markets but also as part of a bulwark against the fearmongering against Mexicans provoked by elements of the U.S. government in the past year.
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Unfortunately, it appears we are in for a total circus, with full-time activists leveraging fearmongering, oversimplified half-truths, and outright demagoguery in attempts to preserve the one-sided "wins" they have achieved in recent years, cheered on by an echo-chamber of quasi-activist faux-reporters.
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This is part and parcel of the overall agenda of the administration as part of its fearmongering, particularly when it comes at a time following the attacks on Latinos and immigrants in El Paso, at a time exactly a week after the massive workplace raid in Mississippi.
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But the theoretical elegance of a carbon tax, which most economists and scientists believe is the surest way to control emissions on a broad scale, was no match even in reliably Democratic Washington for relentless fearmongering about job losses, higher electricity bills and more expensive gasoline.
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"We assert our right to practice our journalism professionally without bowing to pressure from any government or authority and we demand that governments respect the freedom of media to allow journalists to continue to do their jobs free of intimidation, threats, and fearmongering," Al Jazeera said.
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But the bad news for liberals is that with the Republican Party's hideously unpopular economic policy agenda dead, the odds rise that Trump will be able to successfully secure reelection in key Midwestern swing states by waging a campaign based exclusively on racial fearmongering and culture war noise.
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Today the fearmongering has faded away and the issue of child care has become bipartisan, with everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ivanka Trump talking about the struggle parents of young children face when they try to secure care for their children in order to work or continue their education.
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"So when you get past the wild accusations, fearmongering, and hysteria, here's the boring bottom line: The plan to restore Internet freedom would return us to the light touch, market-based approach under which the Internet thrived," he said in a speech at the libertarian-leaning R Street Institute.
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But here the speech's appeal to the assembled legislators to make a version of the deal he's offering on DACA — essentially an amnesty and path to citizenship now in exchange for future immigration reductions — was undercut by all the fearmongering about immigrant crime that Trump wrapped it in.
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Yet again, however, the official record was stained by unnecessary fearmongering over Native people taking their lives and their justice systems into their own hands—and by the apparently terrifying specter of white Americans being answerable, like everyone else on this planet, to laws other than their own.
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Given that, and the fact that immigrants from those seven countries have never caused a fatality in a U.S. terrorist attack — contrary to Trump's fearmongering — it is quite likely that if the administration appeals to the Supreme Court, a potential 4-4 split would uphold the lower court ruling.
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Throughout the war on drugs, lawmakers have regularly tapped into xenophobic sentiments to prohibit certain drugs — such as when San Francisco banned opium smoking that was perceived as popular among Chinese immigrants, and when prohibitionists built up opposition to marijuana by fearmongering about its use among Mexican immigrants.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Fearmongering at Homeland Security" (editorial, April 21): For all his harsh rhetoric, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is actually undermining public safety by enabling the very criminals whom law enforcement agencies, including the one I run, are trying to get off the streets.
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Now reports suggest that President Trump will announce an expansion of his notorious fearmongering "travel ban" next Monday—the third anniversary of its initial ill-conceived, short-lived incarnation—signaling the ban's potential evolution from a pointless Islamophobic P.R. exercise to a beachhead for the growing American ethnic-surveillance state.
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Other Democrats brushed off the suggestion that the U.K. election will weigh on the 85033 presidential race in the U.S. Jonathan Tasini, a progressive strategist and national surrogate for Sanders's 2016 White House campaign, blamed Labour's losses on smears and fearmongering by Conservatives but played down its parallels with American politics.
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One key thing here not on policy is that if the GOP unexpectedly holds the House, that will be taken as a vindication of the political strategy of racial fearmongering that Trump ended the campaign with and that this form of spiteful, exclusionary nationalism is the true soul of the American people.
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What's most striking to me is how many of their opinions about children and technology are not representative of the broader consensus of research, but seem to be based on fearmongering books, media articles, and TED talks that amplify and focus on only the especially troubling outcomes of too much screen time.
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"But in a time of widespread misinformation, fearmongering, and white-supremacist propaganda related to immigration and to our border, in a time when adults and children are dying in US immigration cages, we believe that a novel blundering so badly in its depiction of marginalized, oppressed people should not be lifted up."
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When yet another hateful trans-exclusionary radical feminist (or "TERF") is spreading fearmongering nonsense about trans people daring to play sports, or when "gender-critical" opinions show up as cover stories or in the paper of record, it's tempting to respond with photos of innocent-looking trans kids or personal pleas for recognition.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (D-Calif.), a potential 28500 presidential candidate, called Trump's language "completely irresponsible" and "fearmongering" in an interview with Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
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But that's probably what he needs: not a black swan, you might say, but a flock of gray ones, startling enough to make his fearmongering seem like wisdom, but never quite so frightening that they dissuade voters from taking a flyer on a man who by rights should instill a different, deeper sort of fear.
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For proof of the lucrative effect of fearmongering, look no further than the historical spike in gun sales after mass shootings, which I believe can only be explained by efforts of groups like the NRA to instill fear in their members to stock up on guns now before the government regulates them out of existence.
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She lost, in a shocking upset, and at a day-after event Clinton took a much smaller stage at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City, conceding the election to Donald Trump — the Republican nominee who not only trailed her in the polls, but was less favorable in the electoral map, running a campaign on divisive, fearmongering tactics.
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That's the only possible explanation for the smarmy, self-congratulatory five-minute video his dead (or undead) campaign released this weekend, featuring a Cruz staffer musing to an unseen audience about the nature of loss, regret, and the nobility of failing to stop a candidate whose angry nativism and fearmongering was only a shade darker than Cruz's.
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Here's how New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company, explained it in the report: In the days leading up to the election, the IRA began to deploy voter suppression tactics on the Black-community targeted accounts, while simultaneously fearmongering on Right-targeted accounts about voter fraud and delivering ominous warnings that the election would be stolen and violence might be necessary.
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The attacks on Medicare-for-all in the primary are a shadow of what would come in a general election, when the entire Republican Party, the entire health industry, and much of corporate America will devote billions of dollars to a 24/7 campaign of fearmongering and disinformation that dwarfs the genteel debates among the Democrats.
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The opposition to Massachusetts's law — the conservative, fearmongering No on 3 — built its case on the bathroom myth: If trans people can use the bathroom or locker room that aligns with their gender identity, men will take advantage of the law and act like women to go into women's bathrooms or locker rooms to sexually harass or assault women.
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While second-wave feminism has largely lost its luster in the United States, prominent second-wave academics like Greer maintain a strong hold over feminist thought and politics here in the UK. Plus, it seems that all sides of UK media are intent on taking a swipe at trans lives — with even progressive publications like the Guardian giving platform to anti-trans fearmongering.
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Book publishing has already found that it can make obscene amounts of money on dog-whistle racism and fearmongering, and it learned as much by doing the same kind of cynical calculations that first led it to strike a book deal with Yiannopoulos: This person is getting attention, this person has an audience, this person is someone who will effectively sell books.
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Said Foxx, "Some of my opponents who use the rhetoric of the Willie Horton era, of fearmongering and law and order, do that dismissing the reality of the work we do every day ... and are actually quite comfortable with the fact that we were incarcerating black and brown people at disproportionate rates for things that were not in the interest of public safety."
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"If [Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] wants to know where Donald Trump came [from], he should take a look in the mirror," Reid said in a speech at the left-of-center Center for American Progress Action Fund, a think tank based in Washington, DC. Reid squarely blamed the Kentucky senator for helping create the "wasteland" in which Trump's fearmongering and xenophobia could flourish in the conservative movement.
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A migrant caravan has made its way to the Texas border, more family members are being apprehended than ever before and numerous large groups of Central American migrants are crossing illegally into the US. Congressional Democrats have pushed back on the White House plans, arguing that the President is fearmongering and that the situation on the border in no way qualifies as a national emergency.
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And while some foreign-born people do have higher rates of tuberculosis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) screens for TB in people moving to the US. But this particular kind of xenophobic fearmongering, which Donald Trump spread as a presidential candidate, started surfacing again ahead of the midterms, and it'll likely continue to pop up as we hurtle toward the 2020 election.
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Branko Marcetic in Jacobin suggested that beyond racism, the assault on Omar also ties to her progressive views: As Omar herself said, by trying to paint her as a Bush-era, Islamophobic caricature come to life, Trump is, on one level, trying to use racist fearmongering to distract from his own willful failure to improve the lives of working Americans, a strategy that's already failed spectacularly during the 2018 midterms.
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His rhetoric was often as partisan and fearmongering as anyone else in the race, but, crucially, he had a second speed, too — he was able to speak the language of optimism and uplift, he was able to come off more moderate than he really was, he was able to talk about the economy by making an argument about the future rather than just a divisive critique of the past.
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The din of outrage coming from all sides — on the left, accusations of callous exploitation and fearmongering; on the right, criticisms that political correctness is trumping public safety — underlines the growing disparity between those who largely trust Mr. Trump's diagnoses of the country's problems and believe he and Republicans should be given more time to fix them, and those who are disgusted with his leadership and want to throw him and his party out of power.
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The 66.4 percent "yes" vote was higher than the most recent polls, higher than the estimates of the organizers I interviewed on the ground, and it came in the face of an extremely well-funded campaign (with lots of American right-wing dollars, as The New Republic's Sarah Jones detailed) that relied on the Catholic Church's deep roots in Ireland, on anti-abortion posters with both photorealistic and impossibly caricatured fetuses, on veiled threats and fearmongering about a spiking abortion rate.
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In 2016, home invasion films like Hush, whose villain promises, "I can come in anytime I want, and I can get you anytime I want," reflected fears that spawned a larger political agenda to build walls, close borders, and deport a false number of alleged "criminals" from the US. But other home invasion films in 2016, like Purge: Election Year and Don't Breathe, rejected that premise, issuing scathing critiques of the kind of flawed thinking and fearmongering that built such a shaky, insecure house to begin with.
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The ad creative used by these campaigns has been published as well and — across all of them — the adverts display a mixture of (roundly debunked) claims about suddenly being able to spend '£350M a week on the NHS', rousing calls to 'take back control' (including a bunch of 'hero' shots of Boris Johnson), coupled with ample fearmongering about EU regulations 'holding the UK back' or posing a risk to UK jobs and wages; plus a lot of out-and-out 'project fear' messaging — with the official Vote Leave campaign especially deploying direct dogwhistle racism to stir up fear among voters about foreigners coming to the UK if it can't control its own border or if the EU expands to add more countries… At a glance, the Brexit ad creative is not as 'out there' as some of the wilder stuff the Kremlin was pumping onto Facebook's platform to try to skew the 2016 U.S. election.
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