In America, yea. Democracies need consent. So they engineer consent through fear, mostly. Notice how they never ever debate Trump (or any other Populist) ON THE ISSUES. They always revert to character attacks or make sht up. Muck racking. Because they can't win on the issues. So its pure character assassination all day long. That's the only way Globalists can win elections now. Americans by and large have rejected the Wallstreet/Globalist/Offshoring/Open Borders agenda. So they have to figure out how to not talk about that, and make the flag bearer "a bad man".... You're not voting for a............. BAD MAN, ARE YOU?!?!@??!? They do the same to Sanders and Tulsi for the same reasons. They're anti-globalists (or at least, on that spectrum). See how Tulsi is now a "Russian Asset". Everything boils down to character assassinations for Nationalist-Populists. He's a pedo. He's a gang raper. She's a Russian asset. He's a racist!!!!!! Shuts down dialogue. No need to discuss the populist platform and nationalist reforms popular with America. cause that guys a "Russian Asset". Convenient, isn't it.
Yes, issues, like TV ratings, racist slurs and conspiracy theories right after watching his 2 hours of Fox News crap. Nobody stopped Trump from going on a marathon twitter rant about infrastructure spending, but blame everyone but him .