Fear and anger Trump common sense in 2016 Election

In 1789, Maximilien Robespierre used the public’s distrust and dissatisfaction with the monarchy to drive the French people into bloody revolution.

In 1945, Adolf Hitler took advantage of Germans, promising them that he would bring Germany out of poverty and into supremacy under the Third Reich.

In the 1950’s, Senator Joseph McCarthy took America by storm by appealing to the common fear of the Communist threat, building himself up while throwing innocent Americans under the bus.

There’s a common factor in these situations. Fiery zealots took advantage of their people’s fears and situations to put themselves in power. Under their control, the nations suffered. People’s liberties were trampled and forgotten.

Tyrants are an unfortunate part of history. There will always be people working for their own goals rather than what is best for their country. While we can never truly end the tyrant, we can prevent them from filling positions of power.

History tells us that whoever would be a tyrant would seek to undermine the people using their own fears and anger against them.

In 2016, Americans are faced with another tyrant. I’m talking, of course, about Donald Trump — the explosive business-tycoon-turned-politician that has taken America and the Republican party by storm.

He’s been no stranger to donating to past presidential hopefuls — NPR said that he’s donated over $1.4 million to candidates and parties. Unsurprisingly, two-thirds of that has gone to the Republican party.

However, the sudden conservative tilt has only come in the past few years. Before 2010, Democrats had been Trump’s primary beneficiaries. This is where we find our first issue with the ewest candidate from New York — he’s more than willing to change his mind.

This isn’t exactly a rare occurrence when it comes to politics. Politicians change their minds all the time, usually to appeal to donors. One of Trump’s advantages is that he’s disgustingly wealthy. When you consider a million dollars a “small loan,” then you know you have money to waste.

Trump has been funding his own campaign since day one. There’s no corporations pulling the strings: Trump is his own puppet master. So why is he so prone to “flip-flopping?” The Washington Post has been keeping track of Trump’s contradictory statements.

Trump is infamous for his plan to build a wall along the southern border of America. He wants to keep out those dastardly Mexicans that are destroying American jobs and morals. His plan, like so many of his ideas, has changed numerous times.

On July 23, 2015, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s plan for dealing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants was as simple as “we’ll figure it out later.”

“The first thing we have to do is strengthen our borders,” Trump said, “and after that, we’re going to have plenty of time to talk about it.”

It was early in the election. It made sense not to have a complete answer yet. The very next day, Trump’s plans changed to dangerously echo Chester A. Arthur’s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882  — only the “bad” immigrants would be kicked out.

“If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out,” he said. Trump’s first change.

Two days later, it changed again. “We’re going to do what’s right,” Trump said. “Some are going to have to go.  And some, we’re just going to see what happens.”

Basically, kick out the “bad ones” and keep only some of the “good ones.” He’s yet to give clear criteria of a “bad” or “good” Mexican.  Those “bad ones” are the dastardly rapists and murders that sneak over the border and tear down America’s infrastructure.

On July 27, Trump decided that we would kick out every undocumented immigrant, and then make it easy for those wonderful “good ones” to come back in.

“[…]  I want to expedite it so they can come back in legally,” Trump said. He’s awfully keen on these supposed “good” Mexicans.

According to The Washington Post, Dana Bash, chief political correspondent for CNN, asked Trump about those “good Mexicans” on July 29. “What about the ‘Dreamers?’” Bash said. “What about people who came here when they were children, they didn’t know what they were doing, […] Should they have to leave, too?”

Trump’s answer was simply: “They’re with their parents? It depends.” So really, not an answer.

Anything Trump has said after this isn’t worth saying. He’s gone on a cycle of total deportation and partial deportation. To put it simply, Trump has no plan. He’s just making this all up as he goes along.

What Trump is doing isn’t anything original. He finds that one thing  — illegal immigrants, radical Muslims — and blows it out of proportion to play on people’s fears and gain a following.

He turns the discussion from “the United States versus the Islamic State” to “good Americans versus all Muslims.” He’s targeting groups of people whose only crime is to have a better life or to follow their own faith, playing on prejudices developed after 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren voiced her concerns about Donald Trump in a Facebook post:

“There’s a history of demagogues calling those they disagree with ‘terrorists’ and using that as justification for intimidation and violence,” Warren said, “and that history is ugly and dangerous. There’s also a history of people staying quiet for too long, hoping for the best but watching silently as the threat metastasizes.”

Warren called for “decent people everywhere — Republican, Democrat, Independent — to say, ‘No More Donald.’”

Trump campaigns on the platform of “make America great again.” How has he been allowed to get so far in the election when all he’s doing is put conservatives into a fervor?

He’s loud, he’s unorthodox, and he makes sure he’s heard. His own family has begged him to tone it down during speeches and debates. Ultimately, they have no power over him.

“I say, OK, do whatever you want,” his wife Milania Trump said during CNN’s Trump Family Town Hall. “He’s an adult. He knows the consequences.”

If his own family can’t stop him, who else can?

It’s up to the American people to take a stand against the biggest threat to our nation’s security. Trump likes to complain that the Republican party hates him and rigs the system against him.

No, Donald, that’s what it feels like to have someone disagree with you.