“Trump uses many of the fascist’s tools: a contempt for facts, spreading a pervasive sense of fear and overwhelming crisis, portraying his backers as victims, assigning blame to foreign or alien actors and suggesting only his powerful personality can transcend the crisis. He endorsed the violence done to a dissenter at one of his rallies, and he now floats the idea of making entry to the United States contingent on religion.”

— Dana Milbank 1968 CE –
Author, and Washington Post columnist
from Washington Post

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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

— Hannah Arendt 1906 – 1975 CE
Fearless researcher into the darker reaches of the human psyche
from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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“Too stupid to conspire, too incompetent to obstruct, too dumb to govern... Some of Trump's actions are hateful, some are ideological, and some stretch the bounds of constitutionality. But above all, Trump is bumbling... [he] might talk like Joseph Stalin, but—fortunately—he governs more like Homer Simpson.”

— Dana Milbank 1968 CE –
Author, and Washington Post columnist
from Washington Post

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