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Trump’s latest attacks are a playbook for making the MAGA base feel like they’re under attack

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Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump's latest attacks are aimed at Haitian immigrants.

She says it's a playbook used to target other ethnic or religious groups, and with a similar goal: to make the MAGA base feel like they're under attack.

Ghitis says the goal is to panic the base, and since there isn’t a scary enough truth, lies will do.

But in the meantime, the town’s residents will continue to live in fear, including the Haitian immigrants, who are there legally but who Trump has promised to deport “back to Venezuela .” This is the post-truth Republican Party : fake stories, real consequences. If Trump wins, we’ll see a whole lot more of this—more othering, more scapegoating, more racism, more of anything to panic the base so that he can enact the kind of laws that turn a democracy into an autocracy..