Source: The Atlantic
by Adam Serwer
“Six days into terrorizing the city of Springfield, Ohio, with baseless nonsense about Haitian immigrants kidnapping and eating people’s pets, the Republican vice-presidential nominee J. D. Vance admitted that the tales were intended to push a certain narrative. ‘If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,’ Vance told CNN on Sunday. … Trump’s and Vance’s statements reveal a belief that it would be better to leave dying towns in the Midwest to wither away than revive them and have to share that prosperity with people who are Black, and they seem to be betting that enough American voters in enough swing states agree that it would be better to be broke than integrated.” (09/18/24)