I think it's fair to say they play on peoples ignorance and fears/xenophobia, but there are equally tolerance, co-existence and cooperation they could nurture that exist among people.
Remember the example about Maine, the police and the whole community embraced Somalis and said they cherish us. Donald Trump and his republican went there to drugg up anti-immigration sentiments.
He also went to insult Milwaukee peddle crime narrative, when crime has gone down and most districts within the city has very low crime rates.
Donald Trump in a speech in front of house republicans he called Milwaukee the biggest city in the state Wisconsin ''a horrible city'' and now his campaign is scrambling to come up with damage control. Why is this significant? it's because it's the city in which they are hosting the...
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It's like their whole mantra is to insult people, countries, cities and come with stats to justify it. He could have gone there to praise them for lowering crime significantly and increase jobs and private sector economic activity. If he had something he thinks could be improved upon he could make recommendations and tell them what policies he would implement to benefit them. Nope he did not do any of that, he goes to cities lampoon about crime and immigrants even when they don't have a problem with crime or immigration.