All in all, GOP fearmongering about crime parallels the party’s inflation alarms based on selective and outdated numbers. It can be effective, unfortunately; during 2022, Gallup found that 78 percent of Americans thought crime was higher nationally than in 2021. Turns out that just wasn’t the case.

  • @hanni
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    591 year ago

    That has never held them back

      • eric
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        121 year ago

        Oh, just you wait. It will get here in a few more weeks.

      • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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        111 year ago

        It’s crazy how effective fear mongering is. My mom is not a conservative woman by any means. She hates Trump and his kind with a passion. But she was still captivated by the migrant caravan. It took me several weeks to get her to recognize that it was purely a story running up to the election to play on people’s fears and get their votes.

    • JDPoZ
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      51 year ago

      Because there is no “truth” in a media landscape where there is no penalty for lying.

      There is only propaganda.