Hoping? He doesn't have to hope. There is a solid track record of this being a consistent and reliable tactic. Americans (low info voters) are gullible, pliable and are easily fooled and influenced.
Man Made Global Warming, Housing Scam, Deficit Spending, Obamacare, Entitlements, Evil Teaparty, Bengazi, Fast and Furious, NSA data collection, etc. If the media reports it enough, it becomes absolute truth to their loyal subjects. And no amount of logic or facts will move them from their programmed position.
Hoping? He doesn't have to hope. There is a solid track record of this being a consistent and reliable tactic. Americans (low info voters) are gullible, pliable and are easily fooled and influenced.
That's true, Tenacious 1, but I have a hunch there's a limited supply of looter class members gullible enough to believe the feral government's lies. I think—and admittedly partly hope—it's easier to tell lies to people on the left side of the IQ bell curve than our side.