RE: Trump: "Any negative polls are fake news"
February 8, 2017 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2017 at 6:48 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(February 8, 2017 at 6:14 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The way I see it, this is a concentrated effort to undermine what trust is left in Americans for the press -- it's a medium-to-long-term gambit to eliminate the check that a free press exercises on government, not by legislating it, but by sowing suspicion.
No.6 on the list
Actually on reviewing the list of Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism, it's amazing just how fast Trump is ticking them all off. And the ones that America has historically had little problem with are the ones most in the news at the moment. Namely 6) controlling the media and 8) government and religion being intertwined and 14) fraudulent elections.
