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    Real Problems Do Not Exist for Trump

    Fearmongering about imaginary threats works only when the world is a fairly safe and stable place.
    by Thomas Wright Oct 23, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Jim Bourg / AP Images

    Last night’s presidential debate was originally supposed to be about foreign policy, but after Donald Trump pulled out of the second debate, the moderator changed the agenda, and national security formed only a small piece of it. The consensus among foreign-policy analysts on Twitter is that we learned nothing. But the debate was more revealing than it appeared.

    Trump has trafficked in fear for decades, trying to frighten Americans about things that hardly exist—modern-day Communists, immigrant caravans from Central

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