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Opinion | Trump's plan to get through coronavirus comes straight from the Soviet playbook. By lopezlinette.

and are making massive sacrifices to get through the pandemic — apparently don't have the right to ask questions about what went wrong in the initial response to the outbreak. Facts are not welcome here.What Trump is doing is exactly what incompetent autocrats do when they don't have solutions. They pretend the problem doesn't exist.

This reality distortion phenomena works in authoritarian nations because governments have the power to impose their version of events on society. While Trump has only partial control over the media and Congress, authoritarians have full control over the media and the levers of power. With those tools in hand authoritarians can ensure that any other account of what transpired is simply not given any oxygen, no matter how true it may be.

"Officially, there was no famine," William Henry Chamberlin, the Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor at the time, but "to anyone who lived in Russia in 1933 and who kept his eyes and ears open, the historicity of the famine is simply not in question."

 

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lopezlinette Stupidest article ever. Fake news.

lopezlinette As always, DT keeps moving the goal posts until he realizes he can’t win, and then he just changes the game.

lopezlinette Don't exaggerate

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