I think he is tapping into a segment that believes what he is saying and has for a long time. These days it is politically incorrect to say, "I think we should block Muslims from coming to the US and we should wipe them off the map." There are, however, a lot of people that believe it and they are happy that Trump is saying it.
So I don't think it is so much fear-mongering as tapping into those with a more primal thought on how to deal with our problems.
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