“Let me try to bring some clarity to this deliberate confusion,” he said. Democrats wanted security against lawlessness, too, but Democrats also thought you deserved economic security. The Republicans? “They oppose your interests” and “really believe that if they can make you afraid enough or angry enough, you can be tricked into voting against yourself. It is all part of the same contempt, and tomorrow you can show them the mistake they have made.” The debate wasn’t between left or right, but between “the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says: you are encircled by monstrous
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