Anti-Immigration in Campaign Ads
During the midterm elections this year, campaign ads have gotten extremely combative and increasingly offensive and fear-mongering, mostly on the conservative side. In order to support conservatives in the upcoming election, Trump recently released a campaign video using classic forms of dog-whistle rhetoric when discussing immigration. Attempting to create a stronger "othering" of Hispanic immigrants, Trumps latest video shows a Hispanic man on trial for murder, and associates him with all immigrants, and saying that it is the Democrats' fault. This form of fear-mongering through racial discrimination has existed in campaigns since the beginning of American democracy and does not seem to be improving. Essentially, this racist dog-whistling has been hard-right politicians' go to tactic, and only occasionally do they face any form of backlash. Source: Al Jazeera .
The ads this political season have definitely played on racism and dog-whistle rhetoric. I had to write an analysis on a campaign ad that used Islamophobia in another class and it just shows how politicians use many of the concepts we have discussed in class in their media because they believe it will help get them votes.
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