Repugs push the crime button
Among both parties, fear of crime rose after 9/11. After that, fear of crime among Democrats steadily declined over the next 15 years.
But Republicans showed an entirely different response. When Barack Obama was elected president, fear of crime spiked 13 points. When Donald Trump was elected, fear of crime plummeted 18 points. Finally, when Joe Biden was elected, fear of crime once again spiked, this time by 29 points.
Needless to say, the actual amount of crime doesn't change much over the course of a single year. So why are Republicans convinced that it does?
Do I have to say it? Or is the answer obvious by now? This has nothing to do with actual levels of crime. It has nothing to do with crime policy, which is mostly local anyway. It has nothing to do with protest marches or Ferguson or anything else in far distant cities.
It's because of Fox News, which pushes the crime button whenever a Democrat is president and releases it whenever a Republican is president.
That's it. That's all there is to it.
Labels: Biden, Crime, Democratic Party, History, Right and Left, The Repugnant Party
posted by Rob Anderson @ 1:48 PM
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4 Comments:
Yeah there is no crime. It’s all Russian collusion.
There's always crime, but the issue here is whether Republican demagoguery on the issue has any relation to reality. The crimes the Russian commit---including colluding with the Repugnant Party to influence the 2016 eletion---have little to do with crime as a US domestic issue.
Russian collusion was fake. Then to also say crime is actually down but that we are lied to into believing it’s up by republicans is also fake.
What do you have to show that the crime rate in 2021 is down? Your answer: not a damn thing.
I'm not claiming that crime is down but that there's little evidence that it's up significantly.
"Russian collusion was fake."
There is evidence that the Repugs colluded with Russia in 2016. See the bipartisan Senate report and of course the Muller report.
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