Analysis: How 2014 gave us 2016 — and 2020
Edward Crawford Jr. hurls a tear gas canister fired by police trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 13, 2014. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 20 at 1:51 PM Given the ongoing focus on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, there’s a detail of the country’s apparent effort to influence American politics that gets lost.
Then-President Barack Obama at first dismissed the Islamic State by comparing it to a junior varsity terrorist squad and then, in August, told reporters that the White House “[didn’t] have a strategy yet” for addressing the group. With the 2014 midterm elections looming, the Islamic State became a focal point of Republican attacks against Democratic candidates.
In August of that year, there was an online development that, at the time, seemed distant from the politics of the moment. A group of mostly young men began targeting and harassing women who worked in the video-game industry, ostensibly out of opposition to efforts to make game characters and development more broadly representative. It quickly grew into a sprawling culture war, pitting trolls and open misogynists against people they often disparagingly called “social justice warriors.
He kicked off his general election campaign in July 2016 with a speech at the Republican convention that was remarkable for its dark, ominous tone. He warned of criminal immigrants “roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.” He described spiking murder rates in predominantly black cities such as Chicago and Baltimore — both of which had seen civic unrest in the preceding months .
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