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Sorry, liberals: Donald Trump really means what he says and plans to silence and intimidate dissentersTrump seeks to divide and conquer the media, while congressional allies like Jason Chaffetz go after critics
AMANDA MARCOTTE
For liberals,and anyone with a fundamental love of our democracy, the two months since the election have been one long anxiety attack. Like most really bad anxiety attacks, this one has been fueled not just by fear, but also uncertainty. We know Donald Trump is bad, but the question is, how bad? Was Trumps bringing-fascism-to-America act just a campaign ploy, one that he will drop in favor of being a bog-standard Republican when he steps into office? Or are we really looking down the barrel of an authoritarian regime that suppresses dissent and has no regard for the norms of democracy?
Unfortunately, the past weeks events suggest Trump is going with Door #2: Authoritarian regime that shows strong indicators of sliding into fascism. Doubly disturbing is that there appears to be no resistance from the Republican ranks on Capitol Hill. In fact, at least one Republican congressman, House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz, is taking the initiative to instigate authoritarian crackdowns of his own.
Trumps first press conference since his election was a three-ring circus that only helped cement his reputation as an unhinged liar, but he did make disturbing amounts of progress on intimidating the press.
Trump took a divide-and-conquer strategy during that press conference. He zeroed in on CNN and BuzzFeed, attacking them as fake news for printing reports reports that are 100 percent true that a dossier implicating Trump in Russian espionage efforts was presented by intelligence officials to both Trump and President Obama. He then praised other outlets for not running with the story (though some did), a rather unsubtle effort to turn journalists against one another.
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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/sorry-liberals-donald-trump-really-means-what-he-says-and-plans-to-silence-and-intimidate-dissenters/
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Sorry, liberals: Donald Trump really means what he says -- and plans to silence and intimidate... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2017
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superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)1. They can't silence all of us
Even Germany lost in the end.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)2. It won't be like Germany unless criticism of Trump is made illegal...
like it was in Germany in regard to Hitler.
That won't happen.
On the other hand, Hitler didn't have nuclear bombs at his disposal, so the world might be in worse shape with Trump.