Robert Reich deconstructs the danger of Trump as a metastasizing cancer

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Robert Reich laid out in a detailed fashion how Donald Trump has methodically destroyed American values both actual and aspirational. He scolded Republicans and specifically Orrin Hatch for his sycophancy for the president after the passage of the Republican tax cut scam.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/12/26/robert-reich-trump-metastasizing-cancer/

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1. Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny

Reich:

As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:

1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.

2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.

3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”

4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”

5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.

6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.

7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.

8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.

9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.

10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions and opposition parties.

11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority

12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.

13. Put generals into top civilian posts

14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.

15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.

Consider yourself warned.

[State the Obvious]

2. Read "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder

Sub-titled: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

(Similar to what Reich is saying) Easy read.