scapegoats

She added that "everyone is terrified from the current incitement", and fears they will become "scapegoats".

Our hideous gun massacres, degrading entertainments and rampant addictions make clear that tens of millions of Americans feel abused or alienated enough to crave easy explanations and scapegoats to blame for their pain.

He added that emotions had been "elevated by trauma spread on social media with the police made scapegoats".

This ties her to the witches of centuries past, who also served as scapegoats for their villages’ sins.

These concepts are key to evaluating candidates and choosing one who offers more than false hope, isolationism and scapegoats.