01-12-2017, 10:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2017, 10:29 AM by TeacherinExile.
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(01-12-2017, 05:17 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: Well, when you put it like that, the parallel is clear. Trump is in fact Mussolini. It's just a small step from here (the thing with the CNN reporter) to the suspension of elections and the rise of paramilitary elements with great uniforms. First they came for CNN, which I thought had become a terrible network and hadn't watched for more than 5 minutes at a time in years, and so I did not speak out...
Trump strikes the pose of a Mussolini onstage, that's about it. I will say, however, that Trump is playing a very dangerous game with the press. Nixon also had an adversarial relationship with the press, but Trump is taking his hostility to a whole new level.
I share with you a similar disdain for cable news. My GF and I don't subscribe to--much less watch--what passes for news on CNN, FOX or MSNBC. (Our basic cable package doesn't include them.) I don't miss any of them at all. No, I get my "fake news" the old-fashioned way--I "read all about it." Here's a good example why I tune cable news out:
Rachel Maddow: Will Donald Trump Send Me To A Camp?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2..._camp.html
When Maddow is asked what "first question" she would pose to Trump in an imaginary interview--which I hardly doubt he'll ever grant her--she answers half-jokingly. Yet methinks there is something to her answer that is emblematic of the near-hysteria about Trump emanating from the Left.