We have lost perspective on just how authoritarian and un-American it is for the president to call the press “the enemy of the people.”https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1175561536510812163 …
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These are the leaders in history who used the phrase "the enemy of the people": Stalin Hitler Mao Chavez Mugabe Trump It was too extreme for the later Soviets. In 1956, Khrushchev retired the term, saying it was just aimed at annihilating those who disagreed with Stalin.
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The New York Times loved Stalin and the feeling was more than mutualhttps://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1119371453198213120 …
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One of the refrains of conservatism is that an institution that is currently bad used to be much better--a perspective I invariably disagree with.
Master thread of the NY Times reporting on the rise of the USSR, which garnered a Pulitzer for their man Walter Duranty
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