It’s almost Halloween, and Donald Trump needs no costume to scare people

John Nichols Washington correspondent The Nation needs your help to meet our $57,000 shortfall! Dear Friend, It’s almost Halloween, and Donald Trump needs no costume to scare people. Along with too many of his fellow contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, he has elevated crude and destructive fearmongering to the center of an already intense 2016 election contest. Trump and his crew stumble over one another to divide and distract Americans. They don’t want this country to pay attention to what is really scary—income inequality, wage stagnation, deindustrialization, the buying of elections by billionaires, mass incarceration, and, if all of this weren’t enough, climate change. Too much of today’s media lets its judgement be trumped by Trump, Ben Carson, and Republicans who out-Trump Trump. But The Nation doesn’t get distracted. Our readers expect us to call out tricksters for dressing up their greed and cruelty in the austerity fantasy that there is any kind of morality in tax cuts for the rich and food-stamp cuts for the hungry.We’re shaping an alternative and better media, but we cannot do it without your help.

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