Saturday, July 23, 2016

What You Won't Hear at the GOP Convention: Crime Was Far More Prevalent Under Reagan Than Obama

A dangerous, dystopian America has become the Trump campaign’s happy place.

Speakers at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland portray a country teetering on the brink of an apocalypse conveyed by criminals, terrorists, immigrants and Black Lives Matter. No one expressed that louder than New York's former mayor.

“The vast majority of Americans today do not feel safe,” bellowed Rudy Giuliani Monday night. “They fear for their children and they fear for themselves. They fear for our police officers who are being targeted, with a target on their back.”

How do we "make America safe again," as the convention placards put it? By electing Trump, whom Giuliani linked to his party’s modern paragon.

“He will make America once again, like the president I worked for, Ronald Reagan, the shining city on the hill,” Giuliani said....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/what-you-wont-hear-gop-convention-crime-was-far-more-prevalent-under-reagan-obama


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