As America enters a dark tunnel of dangerous internal divisions and an increasingly violent public discourse, Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on many of this nation’s institutions.
One of the most dramatic battlegrounds is the US president’s war on the media.
It was typified this week when Trump announced he was beginning a $US15 billion ($22 billion) defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
It was not for any particular article, but rather a general dislike of one of the country’s oldest, and most cherished, institutions. Trump is arguing the paper has become a mouthpiece for the Democrats and in general defames him.
He’s doing this because it works for him. His MAGA base — the Make America Great Again loyalists who twice propelled him into the White House — delight in his attacks on the media.
This is happening in both big and small ways. The big ways are the lawsuits and threats. The small ways are how the Trump White House is, day by day, changing the composition of the journalists who can question the president and his spokespeople.
Isn’t that one of the reasons Stalin died so miserably ? People were so afraid of frustrating/angering him that they just never challenged anything he did or he said, even his doctors, for fear of reprisal.
I have a feeling that when Trump was nearly dying from covid that they probably incapacitated his ass to save him, rather than listen to him demand that they inject bleach in his veins and shove a UV wand up his ass
it might get messy since he poops in his diaper.
yes, stalin had a happen of sending people to the gulag.
I mean part of that was also his history made him larger than life among the Soviet people.
Stalin tried to step down due to ailing health multiple times, and kept getting reelected, presumably because any successor would cause a huge shake up.