Trump wrote today: "The biggest problem in our country is the Democrats' weakness against crime! They want to protect those criminals, violent people and villains, at the expense of our great American citizens and patriots. This does not conform to the founding principles of America, and it never will! - President Trump"
Comment: With the midterm elections approaching, Trump skillfully exploits the conservatives' anxiety about public safety, simplifying the differences between the two parties' views on public safety (Republicans emphasize federal strong law enforcement, while Democrats emphasize local autonomy and procedural justice) into a binary opposition of "protecting criminals" versus "protecting citizens," deliberately smearing the Democrats' position that they are not condoning crime but opposing federal law enforcement overreach, and forcibly linking immigration with crime, ignoring the fact that most immigrants abide by the law. He uses the "founding principles" as a moral blackmail, but in reality, he violates the core principles of local decentralization and procedural justice; he avoids discussing the root causes of crime in the United States (income inequality, gun proliferation, and flaws in law enforcement), and doesn't talk about solutions to the problem, but instead blames the Democrats, exposing his shortcomings in avoiding substantive governance, and completely disregarding the impact of his words on the intensification of partisan political confrontation and social division. Essentially, it's about using populist issues to harvest support and serve his own political agenda.
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