1/This story by @PhilipRucker is essential to understanding the battle ahead in 2020.
Trump is going to try, w/Barr and Senate's help, to replace what's happened over past few yrs w/a false, imaginary narrative which benefits him, and Putin.
It's a gigantic Orwellian struggle
Trump is going to try, w/Barr and Senate's help, to replace what's happened over past few yrs w/a false, imaginary narrative which benefits him, and Putin.
It's a gigantic Orwellian struggle
@PhilipRucker 2/Been wrestling w/this very issue, and in new thread👇I argue that the ferocity/intensity w/which Trump is fighting this battle is a sign of his insanity; of his becoming so disconnected fr the real world that he is trying to replace it w/a fictional one.
@PhilipRucker 3/What Trump is attempting here is beyond conventional politics. It's the work of a Mad King, a man gone mad, with unchecked powers, bending entire system to his delusions.
We've all gone too easy on the lies, confabulations, inventions. This is scary, dangerous stuff.
We've all gone too easy on the lies, confabulations, inventions. This is scary, dangerous stuff.
@PhilipRucker 4/The founding of our Republic was animated by direct experience of an unchecked sovereign gone mad - Mad King George - and damage a single person can do to entire society in a short time. We are there now. Barr/Senate's complicity in this still shocks. bbc.com/news/magazine-…
