Political violence and fearmongering bigotry have become too normalized | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "We're going to get these people out," Trump said in a Friday news conference.
42% : And if you talk to employers, they've done a very, very good job and they work very, very hard." Another of Trump's bogus claims is now threatening legal immigrants in Aurora, Colorado, a Denver suburb that Trump has repeatedly asserted is being "taken over" by Venezuelan criminals.
39% : " In a last-ditch effort to prevail in their campaign, Trump and Vance are encouraging the haters.
38% : Trump is now talking about holding a rally in Springfield.
31% : "They're poisoning the blood of our country," Trump said of immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire eight months ago - virtually quoting Adolf Hitler, who wrote in Mein Kampf: "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.
27% : Trump and Vance are using the oldest of tyrannical ploys - fueling deep-seated fears by creating an "other", depicted as subhuman, who "take over" towns and "devour" loved ones.
21% : In demonizing and dehumanizing migrants, Trump and Vance are not just seeking to win over a few wavering voters across the nation or making a play for control of the Senate.
19% : While utterly despicable, Sunday's second apparent assassination attempt on Trump can be seen as a symptom of the hate-filled politics that he and Vance are peddling.
17% : A Springfield family whose son died last year when a car driven by a Haitian immigrant accidentally collided with a school bus has pleaded for Trump and Vance to stop using their deceased son for political purposes.
10% : Yet Trump and Vance are doubling down.
10% : Meanwhile, members of Trump's social media war room - including Trump confidante Laura Loomer, known for sexist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-Muslim, and antisemitic posts - are busily spreading AI-generated images of dogs and cats being protected by Trump, along with other content promoting the claim that pets are being eaten by Haitians.
9% : While despicable, this second assassination attempt on Trump is partly a symptom of the hate he and JD Vance are peddling The second apparent attempt on Donald Trump's life - on Sunday at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida - occurred just over two months after he was wounded during an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
9% : Trump's and Vance's claims are completely bogus.

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