Demagogues like Trump are highly skilled at creating fear in their constituents, and, as Bertrand Russell points out here, this tends to make us more tribal, and more suspicious of and hateful to people who do not share our religion, skin color, sexual orientation, etc.
Notice how little facts matter in cases like these. The strength of the U.S. economy is a good example. But if you turn on Fox “News” or the other right-wing media, you’ll find a few cherry-picked data points that “prove” that Biden has ruined the economy.
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Trump Orders His Justice Department to Investigate a Political Opponent — Zzzzzzz . . . .
An authoritarian’s using his power to suppress his political opponents is at the very top of his to-do list. This has been proven to be true not just by the fascists of the 20th Century, but for at least the last 2500 years, as Plato observed.
If this weren’t the case, i.e., if what Trump is doing were something that was at least somewhat novel and could have possibly come as a surprise, we could have more sympathy for America’s throwing its democracy into the toilet.
But we’ve seen this movie before, and we all know how it ends.
We have precious little time left to remove him.
Trump Orders His Justice Department to Investigate a Political Opponent — Zzzzzzz . . . .
There are many ways to illustrate the corruption that is the Trump administration, but perhaps the most hard-hitting is the use of the Justice Department as an instrument to punish the president’s enemies.
It takes a fearless and honest person like Jack Smith put a spear through this crap.
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