This paragraph from before Trump's election now looks ominously prescient about his ability to..

[Soph0571]

..inspire violence

With just days left before the 2016 election and with Donald Trump projected to have a 33 percent chance of winning the presidency, Lawfare writers Quinta Jurecic and Ben Wittes published a paragraph that now looks disturbingly prescient about the movement of Trumpism:

Jurecic shared the paragraph over the weekend after the recent mass shootings, writing: “[Wittes] and I wrote this four days before the 2016 election. I’ve never really stopped thinking about it.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/this-paragraph-from-before-trumps-election-now-looks-ominously-prescient-about-his-ability-to-inspire-violence/|

Well they weren't wrong... spooky. Trumpism 101.

[FM123]

1. They were spot on!

To look at the numbers again, it turned out that counties where trump held a 2016 campaign rally saw a 226 % increase in hate crimes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/trumps-rhetoric-does-inspire-more-hate-crimes/