Use of Fear

“Trump sucessfully built on discontent and magnified anger into rage so that enough voters in the right states were willing to take the chance on an outsider with no political experience […] as a means of political transformation”

Denise M. Bostdorff

“Politicians and state control agencies, working with news media have done much to capatalize on this concern (fear) and promote a sense of insecurity and reliance on formal agents of social control – and related businesses – to provide survalience, protencion, revenge, to punish and to protect, to save us.”

David L. Altheide