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ModSquad😎Melanie @Lonestarmomcom
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All 4 (now present) in Trump Presidency:

Tyranny-
1. Open hostility to verifiable reality and #FreePress
(Use of words “Hoax” or “Fake.”

2. Shamanistic incarnation- phrases used such as “lock her up” “build that wall.” And now....”Angry mob.” “Mob Rule.” Dazed by chants
3. Magical thinking (Mexico pays for wall/Drain the swamp. Facts are not necessary-just need a chant.)

4. Misplaced faith: (like Trump is “strong” and “protective” or the only one who can deliver positive economy.) @TimothyDSnyder
“Fake news” is used by an authoritarian who is trying to govern from place of uncertainty.
Lügenjournalisten = “lying journalist”
1933 “We do not subscribe to the view that Mr. Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have so long desired, will implement the proposals circulating in [Nazi newspapers]; they will not suddenly deprive German Jews of their constitutional rights...”
“The hero of a David Lodge novel says that you don’t know, when you make love for the last time, that you are making love for the last time. Voting is like that.” #VOTE #VOTE #VOTE @TimothyDSnyder
☝🏻 “Some of the Germans who voted for the Nazi Party in 1932 no doubt understood that this might be the last meaningfully free election for some time.................BUT MOST DID NOT.” #Tyranny #VOTE #VOTE #VOTE
Some of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1946 assumed they’d “have another chance” to vote. They didn’t.
And...... “No doubt the Russians who voted in 1990 did not think that this would be the last free and fair election in their country’s history, which (thus far) it has been.” @TimothyDSnyder #Tyranny
“Rarely in this country has the less popular of the two parties controlled every level of power at the federal level, as well as the majority of statehouses.” @TimothyDSnyder
“Where annual elections end, tyranny begins.”

Will we in retrospect see the elections of 2016 much as Russians see the elections of 1990, or Czechs the elections of 1946, or Germans the elections of 1932?

This, for now, depends upon us.” @TimothyDSnyder #Election2018
“We submit to tyranny when we renounce the difference between what we want to hear and what is actually the case.” @TimothyDSnyder #TruthIsTruth #Truth #StubbornFacts
“I don’t agree w/ Nationalism/Trump but......”
“Like Hitler, Trump used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against him. Trump was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.”
“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. 1st-Ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. 2nd-people must find themselves in new places and w/groups who were not previously their friends.” @TimothyDSnyder
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