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The Commander of Fear

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The Commander of Fear

Trump’s magical mixture is to make being afraid feel like fun.
By Charles M. Blow

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Fear is an easily activated emotion. It’s cheap. It’s effective. Trump knows all of this, and he uses it.

It is easier to instill people with fear than to imbue them with hope.

Fear doesn’t have to be rational or reasonable to be real.

A lie is just as solid a foundation for fear as truth is. Indeed, the lie is probably an even better foundation.

Trump is playing the people who support him and they revel in the delight of being played. It’s all dramatic theater, a game in which the rule maker is armed with the power of the presidency.

He doesn’t so much expose them to new fears as he draws up within them their existing fears. Trump is the Commander of Fear and those who support him have found a perverse comfort in that fear.

http://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/trump-fear.html?imp_id=76457486&action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage




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