Republicans Peddle Fear and Little Else on Day One of RNC 2016

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Republicans Peddle Fear and Little Else on Day One of RNC 2016

SHANE HARRIS and TIM MAK at the Daily Beast


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/19/republicans-peddle-fear-and-little-else-on-day-one-of-rnc-2016.html

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Republicans kicked off their 2016 convention in Cleveland on Monday evening focusing on national security and promising to “make America safe again.” But the speeches—by TV celebrities, a former U.S. general, and Donald Trump’s wife—seemed designed to make Americans feel less safe.

The speakers mostly painted a picture of a dystopian America, where illegal immigrants commit violent crimes, President Obama is purposefully weakening the country’s borders, and Syrian refugee sleeper agents are trying to swindle their way into the United States to plot terrorist attacks.

Those talking points—which aren’t unique to the Trump campaign—surely resonated with many Republican voters, but the speakers offering them had little in the way of specific, concrete proposals for how their standard-bearer would reverse what they described as the Obama administration’s ruinous security policy at home and abroad.

Leading Republicans launched broadside attacks on Obama’s foreign policy record and worked to tie the presumptive Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to him.



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[DesertFlower]

1. this is the best they can do. bringing up

hillary's past all the way back to whitewater.

did they forget about the benghazi hearings -- 11 hours and could not find that she did anything wrong.