JD Vance’s repeated attacks on Haitian immigrants have fueled a common refrain from Democrats — that he and former President Donald Trump are “scapegoating” immigrants by trying to shift manufactured ...

Focusing public attention on a scapegoat is a favorite tactic of authoritarian leaders. The process begins with selecting a scapegoat — a small, vulnerable group of people with little ability to fight ...

On Nov. 7, 1938, a young Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, in France. As a result of this incident, the Nazi Party stoked the anger of the German public. It led ...

Scapegoating is a sociopsychological phenomenon in which a person or group unjustly shoulders the blame for problems they did not instigate. This defensive mechanism permits individuals or societies ...