Thread by @JYSexton

The authoritarian cycle is happening before our very eyes. Trump is failing and hiding his failures behind conspiracies and enemies.

Today he said liberals are working with China to aid propaganda and enable deaths from the pandemic.

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OANN is pushing a conspiracy narrative that Trump just threw gasoline on. It'll grow, he'll repeat it, and it'll move directly to Fox News. That's how this works. And he's going to blame all of this on liberals, China, and immigrants.

He will happily sacrifice lives.

I keep telling people because it needs said. This is a cycle. It's predictive. It's played out in one society after another. You can set your watch by it.

Trump is an authoritarian and we are spiraling out of control. You have to recognize it, you have to understand it.

This is increasing at a nightmarish pace. It's picking up speed by the day and the more this crisis grows the more they're going to push these conspiracies.

It'll be on Fox. It'll be in pressers. It's growing in propaganda and misinformation online.

People's lives are at risk.