@GuardianUS 1/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by Ed Pilkington @edpilkington via @guardianus ,”At the center of this new domestic terrorism threat is the seed of doubt that Trump has implanted in the minds of millions of Americans that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged”.
2/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by @edpilkington via @guardianus ,”It is the “animating lie”, as the former homeland security official Juliette Kayyem [ @juliettekayyem ] has put it, that drove the mob to storm the US Capitol and that now hangs in the air like a toxic gas.
3/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by Ed Pilkington @edpilkington via @guardianus ,”Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of the presidential election amounted to a “big lie” familiar to those who study demagogic propaganda.
4/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by Ed Pilkington @edpilkington via @guardianus ,” Embedded within it are many of the core elements of what the Yale historian Timothy Snyder [ @TimothyDSnyder ] has called Trump’s post-truth, “pre-fascism”.
5/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by Ed Pilkington @edpilkington via @guardianus ,”The lie was simple – able to be repeated and shared on TV and social media in six short words: “They stole the election from me.”
6/ Per bit.ly/39cQjt2 by @edpilkington via @guardianus ,[six short words: “They stole the election from me.”]”That “they” was important too – by signaling a clear enemy, it allowed his supporters to direct their frustration and anger at identifiable targets.
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