At best, this rhetoric infects the minds of his followers, and as we saw in the UK last year, can incite them to violence.
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An attack on a journalist becomes a patriotic duty; jailtime is martyrdom before an unjust system.
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In the worst case, journalists are targeted using charges of inciting terror. This has a playbook already; look to Erdoğan.
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it really is. Bolshevik 101.
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I was horrified when I read this. This is the point as you have pointed out in the past where they start jailing journalists
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they don't even need to jail journalists at this point any more. Just one gun crazy "patriot".
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