AkaSci 🛰
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Paul Krugman:
Trump Plays the Carnage Card
Fake crime wave, real power grab
"Anyone who either lives in DC or looks at crime data knows that this is malicious nonsense. But we can’t take it for granted that the rest of the country will understand that that he’s lying.
It’s the responsibility of the news media to make that clear. Don’t say “Trump makes contentious claims about DC crime.” Don’t say that there’s “dispute over DC crime data.” Just say that he’s lying.
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-plays-the-carnage-card
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AkaSci 🛰️@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
Paul Krugman:
"A large part of the answer is that many Americans believe that crime is running rampant — just not where they happen to live. Fox News tells suburban and small-town Americans that New York and L.A. are crime-ridden hellscapes, and they believe it.
We saw something quite similar in assessments of the economy during the Biden years, when American had a much more positive assessment of their local economies than they did of the economy as a whole"
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-plays-the-carnage-card
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