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Trump last night denounced totalitarianism (toe-tallie-terrio-tism), accusing left of "shaming dissenters & demanding submission from anyone who disagrees." Some of the ways Trump has used his own powers to punish dissenters, critics, perceived enemies: /1
*weaponizing anti-trust against media org whose coverage he dislikes (CNN)
*threatening to "revoke license" of media org whose coverage he dislikes (NBC) /2
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/… reuters.com/article/us-usa…
*weaponizing US Postal Service against owner of media org he dislikes (WaPo, personally owned by Amazon CEO Bezos)
*weaponizing govt procurement against owner of media org he doesn't like (also WaPo, Bezos) /3
reuters.com/article/us-hea… politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
*falsely accusing TV host of murder after critical coverage (Scarborough)
*firing & blocking from promotion government employee whose speech he dislikes (Vindman) /4
nytimes.com/2020/05/27/bus…
axios.com/trump-tweet-vi…
*trying to block publication of multiple books critical of him (Bolton, Trump's niece Mary Trump) /5
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
*encouraging violence against protesters at his rallies, journalists, etc.
*teargassing peaceful protesters in front of the White House so he could have infamous bible photo op /6
abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-…
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
.@dandrezner with another example I should have included
Further elaboration on the Cancel Culture president, and how he uses state power to crush and cancel dissent: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
also of course (thanks @jonathanchait)
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It's great that we added more jobs in June. But we're still very, very far in the red, with total employment down nearly 10% on net since the pandemic began washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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20.5 million jobs were lost in April. That wipes out all the net job gains since early 2011.
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