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Will Trump's "enemy of the people" campaign backfire on him?

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History is not on Trump's side when it comes to attacking the press. The tactic failed in the 1790s for John Adams.
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Trump continues to demonize journalists as enemies of the people and paint immigrants as invaders. He should be careful. History shows that such tactics can backfire.

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
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In the 1790s, President John Adams mounted an assault on immigration and the freedom of the press as a way to maintain his supremacy. Sound familiar?

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
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The Federalist Party’s attacks focused on French and Irish migrants. Why? These newcomers gravitated toward the political opposition: Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans Party

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
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🗓️ 1790s: For every reputable immigrant, “we receive three or four discontented, factious men … the convicts, fugitives of justice, hirelings of France" -- Noah Webster 🗓️ 2018: Haiti and African nations are "shithole countries" -- Donald J. Trump

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
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How did Federalists make life more difficult for immigrants? - Amended the Naturalization Act - Forced new arrivals to wait 14 years to apply for citizenship - Passed the Alien Acts, which allowed the president to imprison and deport foreigners

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
bloomberg.com
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Federalists, like today’s Republicans, had little faith in their ability to maintain their grip on power. That's why they attacked newspapers. It was a strange target: Three-quarters of the nation’s publications in 1795 had a Federalist bias

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
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The more vocal Federalist papers rivaled Fox News, describing the Democratic Republicans as “frog-eating, man-eating, blood-drinking cannibals.” That insult makes Sean Hannity look like a measured and respectable journalist.

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
bloomberg.com
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In 1798, the Federalists passed the Sedition Act, which made uttering "false scandalous and malicious writing" about the government a crime: - Publishers were arrested - 30 people were prosecuted - The number of opposition papers soared

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
bloomberg.com
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At the height of its power, when the Federalist Party controlled virtually everything in the country, they unnecessarily and viciously targeted both immigrants and the press. The disastrous outcome should give today’s Republicans food for thought

Trump Isn’t the First President to Attack `Enemies of the People’
John Adams and his Federalist Party went after immigrants and journalists in the 1790s. It backfired.
bloomberg.com
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