What is fascinating about fake news stories is how they follow a pattern.
Say immigration. Take a fact and then create an emotional analogy that while not accurate is so emotionally overpowering that it produces the desired anti-Trump message. For example separating illegal immigrants applying for asylum from their children is the equivalent of separating mothers from their children at Nazi death camps.
In this case, a Republican calling into question the racism of a Democrat must be shouted down with the image of rising McCarthyism tied to some science fiction concern about forced DNA testing.
So why can only Democrats play the race card?
So why can only Democrats play the race card?
They use it because it has worked well for decades. But now that Trump is dishing it back to them unfiltered in speeches and on twitter, we’re about to see the race card backfire on the Dems.