Hate Runs High In Counties Hosting Trump Rallies
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Hate Runs High In Counties Hosting Trump Rallies
March 22, 2019, 2:54 PM
This will surely come as a shock to anyone who has ever seen one of Trump's Nuremberg rallies, but now we have evidence: Trump counties hosting his hate rallies have more hate crimes -- a 226 percent increase, to be exactl
According to a study reported in The Washington Post, Trump's incendiary rhetoric may indeed encourage hate crimes.
To test this, we aggregated hate-crime incident data and Trump rally data to the county level and then used statistical tools to estimate a rally’s impact. We included controls for factors such as the county’s crime rates, its number of active hate groups, its minority populations, its percentage with college educations, its location in the country and the month when the rallies occurred.
We found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.
So is it Trump inspiring hate, or that he gravitates toward hate, or is it simply a coincidence? According to the authors:
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https://crooksandliars.com/2019/03/hate-runs-high-counties-hosting-trump
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Doesn't it look like he is literally shitting in his pants in this picture?