I mean yes, he’s throwing Stalinistic phrases about but he had the wiggle room of calling “Fake News” the enemy of the people rather than a specific journalistic outlet. Which of course was BS since everyone knew what he was doing, but a legal mind could make that distinction.
As I’ve said many times, I actually appreciate this Trump era. It lets us know what people are really like (regardless of what they’ve preached before).
At least he acknowledged the New York Times as “true”!
In the end, Trump and his supporters would destroy every institution in our Democracy to support his endless money grubbing and self-promotion. We are to believe that only Donald Trump tells the truth… he is ruling as if we was in Orwell’s “1984” but he lacks the control over communications that makes the dystopia of “1984” function.
When something violent eventually happens, the people supporting Trump’s language will both sides this. All the while having the opportunity to disavow this kind of rehetoic.
You might want to follow the media treatment of the Covington incident and the resulting lawsuit. Media earns no right to avoid criticism because of possible resulting possible anger. That’s not a rule they follow for themselves.
