Krugman: Cotton & Perdue are "acting like apparatchiks in a totalitarian regime"
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George Orwell wrote about this at length; most famously in Nineteen Eighty-Four, but long before then, for example in Looking Back at the Spanish War https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/ … where he described the rejection of the very notion of objective truth 2/
You can understand this kind of behavior among people actually living under a totalitarian regime, where failure to be sufficiently obsequious to the Leader can mean imprisonment or death. But here you have wealthy, powerful men in what is still a free society doing it 3/
And doing it on behalf of an almost inconceivably undeserving leader utterly lacking in moral authority of any kind. The fact that they (and many other Republicans) are willing to behave like this now is terrifying in what it says about the future 4/
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Those who defend Trump in this manner, are in many ways worse than Trump. While Trump lies all the time about everything, he is a "pathological liar" and somehow you get the feeling he has "lost the ability to tell the truth"
These people, U.S. Senators, who defend him, and say that Durbin is lying, and that Trump is telling the truth are not pathological liars. They are defending their boss with a lie that they know is a lie. It is for their own interest that they lie some more, not the countries, not their party's their state's. It is indeed terrifying. Some have not taken the bait and lied about this. At least there are "some" or one Republican. Even one is better than none.
I must add this: Cotton and Perdue have defined themselves forever as liars. They may have thought they were supporting their leader, Trump, but they have forever joined the liars club. 
Or maybe a cut of some newly privatized national resource?
(Hey, it worked for Putin!)
‘Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!’
