Catherine Rampell: Republicans make us fear things they refuse to fix

Video: Video games did not invent hateful ideologies. The rush to blame them for mass shootings is a pathetic evasion of the truth, argues Alyssa Rosenberg. (Kate Woodsome, Joy Sharon Yi, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)

It’s almost funny, in a twisted sort of way. Election after election, Republicans have based their core political appeal on fear.

And yet — as dual gun massacres this weekend starkly illustrate — they refuse to offer solutions to any of the mortal threats Americans actually face.

President Trump's closing (losing) message in the midterms was "Be afraid, be very afraid"; he and his co-partisans have lately doubled down on it for 2020. Of course, the perils that Republicans…