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Donald Trump is provoking fear in the United States. His declarations and actions are part of a deliberate strategy of creating enough fear to have established a reign of terror. Trump is being compared with Vladimir Putin in Russia – see M. Gessen in the New York Times (This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well) – and Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1930s – see Aziz Huq in the The Atlantic (America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State). “Invading hordes” are not causing fear in the United States, the president and his followers are. The United States is engulfed in an avalanche of fear.

There are numerous examples of Trump’s fear mongering; “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” Trump said just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we are seeing in the country today, and it must stop right now,” Trump declared. “We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them.”

Susan Glasser asked; “Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?” in The New Yorker. Look at what Trump said and what he said he would do. He held “the radical left” responsible for Charlie Kirk’s assassination as well as “terrorism” in the country. Beyond threatening, “to beat the hell out of them,” he added, “we’re going to get that problem solved.”

How would “that problem” be solved? “The Department of Justice is also investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund..fuel and perpetuate political violence and we think we know who many of them are,” Trump said at the Kirk memorial service, “But law enforcement can only be the beginning of our response to Charlie’s murder.”

Continual fear is part of Trump’s........

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