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From the Washington Post....843.8 days (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2019
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kentuck
(111,110 posts)1. It should be mentioned every day.
He is succeeding in shutting out the press from White House operations, unless he is in charge.
spanone
(135,900 posts)3. 'Enemy of the people': Trump's phrase and its echoes of totalitarianism
The phrase the president has repeatedly said in his attacks on the media was used by dictators including Stalin and Mao
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/03/trump-enemy-of-the-people-meaning-history
Donald Trumps repeated use of the phrase enemies of the people in his attacks on the media has stoked anger and fear not only because of general concerns that he is demonising a pillar of American democracy, but because of its echoes of totaliariansim.
The phrase has old roots, even appearing in a Shakespeare play, but it became well known in the 20th century when it was adopted by dictators from Stalin to Mao, and Nazi propagandists, to justify their murderous purges of millions.
Stalin was perhaps most closely associated with the phrase, which successor Nikita Khrushchev specifically denounced in a landmark speech after Stalins death, which he used to begin dismantling the dictators poisonous legacy.
Stalin originated the concept enemy of the people. This term automatically made it unnecessary that the ideological errors of a man be proven, Khrushchev said in his secret address to the Communist partys inner circle.
The phrase has old roots, even appearing in a Shakespeare play, but it became well known in the 20th century when it was adopted by dictators from Stalin to Mao, and Nazi propagandists, to justify their murderous purges of millions.
Stalin was perhaps most closely associated with the phrase, which successor Nikita Khrushchev specifically denounced in a landmark speech after Stalins death, which he used to begin dismantling the dictators poisonous legacy.
Stalin originated the concept enemy of the people. This term automatically made it unnecessary that the ideological errors of a man be proven, Khrushchev said in his secret address to the Communist partys inner circle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/03/trump-enemy-of-the-people-meaning-history
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Trumps entire existence is an epic fail.
Not sure Ive ever seen anything like it.