But rather than shaping public opinion, he is running scared of it.
但与其说他在建立民众信心，不如说是让大家更加害怕。
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Relating gto or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year was "post-truth," a term that means "objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."