This past weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey and the stabbing of nine people in a Minnesota mall — now being referred to as terrorist attacks — have led some observers to suggest that these attacks could help Donald Trump. Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza wrote on Monday that “chaos, uncertainty and anxiety will work in Trump’s favor,” and Trump adviser Alex Castellanos said that “Trump is strength in an uncertain world.”
But is this really true? CONT.
Dina Smeltz (Chicago Council on Global Affairs), The Monkey Cage