Let's compile examples using this list of authoritarian characteristics
#5. Control information at home.
I'll start, we all know the Fox News M.O. is to go on the air with unproven allegations and present them as facts. The View was reviewing the allegations against Matt Gaetz. These are credible allegations that are part of a House ethics investigations that Matt Gaetz was banging underage girls. Sunny Hostin was reviewing the allegations live on the air when the ABC lawyers started pissing their pants, wrote up a letter which appears to recant what she just said. ABC is so frightened by Trump retribution their shows can't even tell the truth.
- Extend executive power
- Repress dissent and citizen efforts to hold government accountable
- Capture elite support and, when needed, demonize them too
- Appeal to populism and nationalism
- Control information at home; misinform abroad
- Cripple the opposition
- Covert election manipulation
- Play the emergency card
- Concentrate power in the hands of a single individual or a small group
- Disregard human rights and civil liberties.
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Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian’s latest methods to grab and hold power.
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#5. Control information at home.
I'll start, we all know the Fox News M.O. is to go on the air with unproven allegations and present them as facts. The View was reviewing the allegations against Matt Gaetz. These are credible allegations that are part of a House ethics investigations that Matt Gaetz was banging underage girls. Sunny Hostin was reviewing the allegations live on the air when the ABC lawyers started pissing their pants, wrote up a letter which appears to recant what she just said. ABC is so frightened by Trump retribution their shows can't even tell the truth.
Sunny Hostin Forced To Read ‘Legal Note’ on The View: ‘Matt Gaetz Has Long Denied All Allegations…’
The View co-host was forced to read out a "legal note" acknowledging that Matt Gaetz has "long denied all allegations" of sexual misconduct against him.
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