Republicans love to make up fake crises. Here are five of the biggest | Robert Reich

The goal is to deflect and distract - to use scapegoating, racism and outright lies to disguise what's really going on

Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public's attention from the real crisis of our era - the siphoning of income, wealth and power from most Americans by a small group at the top.

Consider the fake fears they've been whipping up:

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com