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CONway keeps accidentally revealing Dump's fascist intentions - according to a historian
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-keeps-accidentally-revealing-trumps-fascist-intentions-according-to-a-historian/Dump and Skeeve Bannon are carrying out an authoritarian coup, according to an expert on fascist history — and Kellyanne CONway keeps dropping hints about their intentions.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history and Italian studies at New York University, warned in a CNN column that Cheeto and his chief strategist intended to remake American politics in their own image, and she cites some revealing comments by CONway, a senior counselor to the president, to back her claims.
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The historian described how the Dumpster and his team appeared to be setting up a “government within the government” to further consolidate their power and sideline dissenters. This strategy requires the creation of a small group of loyal insiders — say, the Strategic Initiatives Group — that takes orders directly from the pussygrabber’s inner circle and bypass existing chains of command. CONway described this setup when she said: “It’s really time for Tiny Hands to put in his own security and intelligence community.”
That tight inner circle must then purge anyone — the acting attorney general, for example, or the State Department’s entire senior staff — who questions their absolute authority over even the truth itself. “You’re saying it’s a falsehood,” CONway said, challenging unflattering reports about the size of Cheeto’s inauguration crowd. “Sean Sphincter, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.” Then even outside dissent must be silenced, as CONway warned. “Not one network person has been let go, not one silly political analyst and pundit who talked smack all day long about Fuckface Von Pussygrabber has been let go,” CONway said. “I’m too polite to mention their names, but they know who they are, and they are all wondering who will be the first to go. The election was three months ago. None of them have been let go.”
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It gives me a little childish satisfaction to replace his name with my favorite insults.
