Donald Trump’s recent op-ed in USA Today was a wholly misguided narrative designed to do one thing: scare.

This op-ed, and the newly minted Republican talking point warning of an “angry mob” if Democrats win in November, betrays both how afraid the GOP and Trump are about the midterm elections and the lengths to which they will go to turn around their fortunes.

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Trump’s piece is so misleading that it is impossible to highlight all of the factual inaccuracies here. But let’s start with a few of the more easily fact-checked whoppers Trump boldly claims:

Trump claims that as a candidate, he promised to protect coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and create new health-care insurance options that would lower premiums and that he kept that promise.

Facts say that the Trump administration joined a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general aimed at striking down parts of the Affordable Care Act, including protections for people with pre-existing conditions:

“President Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE isn’t playing it straight when it comes to his campaign pledge not to undercut health coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. Five weeks before midterm elections, he is telling voters that those provisions ‘are safe,’ even as his Justice Department is arguing in court that those protections in the Affordable Care Act should fall.”

Trump also claims that he is fighting "hard against the Democrats’ plan that would eviscerate Medicare.”

Well, facts are pesky things. The New York Times pointed out, “First, not only has Mr. Trump failed to strengthen Medicare and Social Security, the financial outlook for both trusts has largely worsened … In June, the government projected that Medicare funds would be depleted by 2026, three years earlier than estimated in 2017. The report noted that less money will flow into the fund because of low wages and lower taxes.”

Also from the New York Times: Democrats have staunchly defended Medicare, and none of the health care proposals from Democrats would reduce Medicare benefits.

Boldly, Trump continues to try to paint Republicans as the protectors of Medicare, as he states: “Republicans believe that a Medicare program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives should always be protected and preserved.”

But again, facts tell us that congressional Republicans’ 2019 budget proposed huge cuts to Medicare. According to The Hill: “House Republicans offered a budget proposal that would cut mandatory spending by $5.4 trillion over a decade, including $537 billion in cuts to Medicare and $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other health programs.”

So the reality is that after passage of the massive GOP tax cut for the rich that balloons our deficits, worried Republicans looked to slash Medicare as well as Social Security for deficit reduction.

Trump also claims Democrats want "open-borders socialism." Nothing could be further from the truth — though it makes for a great talking point. He is creating a political euphoria for his base even if it is only a mirage.

No Democrat in the House or Senate or running for either is for open borders. While some candidates are talking about abolishing or reforming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the context is the restructuring of our immigration system so that ICE (or whatever it becomes) does not act like the militarized enforcer of a terror-based nationalistic police state.

In fact, in the last real immigration legislative debate, Democrats were pushing a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would have added billions for border security, an E-verify system to ensure employers would not hire workers without documents and thousands more Border Patrol agents.

This does not sound like an open-border policy, but Trump never let a good set of facts get in the way of his fear-mongering.

Now we are hearing Trump at his last few rallies using the new tactic of referring to Democrats as an "angry mob." This phrase was seemingly started by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFEC flags McConnell campaign over suspected accounting errors Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ky.) in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearing debacle in which self-proclaimed sexual assault survivors were being ignored by their elected officials.

Trump warned that if Democrats win the midterms, they will turn the country into Venezuela. It is beyond the pale for Trump to compare democratically elected officials to a dictator despot. Moreover, this line of attack is laughable coming from Trump.

He is the one who bestows nothing but compliments to the world’s most ruthless strongmen and dictators, like the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Erdoğan, Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

It is ironic that Trump, in his fear of losing, is using fear to try and hang on to power.

But the “mob” is indeed angry. This group is made up of women, supportive men, Democrats, progressives, independents, party-less Republicans and everyone else who is sick of what this country has become under Trump and sycophantic Republican members of Congress who are incapable of holding him accountable.

So lies, alternative “facts” and fear will not work this time around for Trump and the GOP. America is taking its anger from the halls of Congress, to the streets and straight to the ballot box. We will remember in November.

Maria Cardona is a principal at the Dewey Square Group, a Democratic strategist and a CNN/CNN Español political commentator. Follow her on Twitter @MariaTCardona.