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This is the end game? This is where we’re going with Trump, Barr, Fox, and the Republicans? I hope not, but it sure sounds like it. Easy to see Trump and Barr being down for this. You have to have no mind of your own. We are indeed living in a crackpotocracy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...theory-michael-flynn-narcissist-a9510756.html
Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor who studies authoritarianism and propaganda, posits that the endgame for Trumpworld is to bring many of the baseless conspiracy theories about Obama, Trump, and other prominent Democrats that fall under the umbrella of “QAnon” into real life.
"They are reverse-engineering reality to fit their crazy conspiracy theories,” he explained. “They're trying to find any possible story that they can tell by taking things out of context and fitting them into their conspiracy theory.”
Stanley said Trump’s manic tweeting about “Obamagate” and the Justice Department’s actions in the Flynn case are clear statements of their intentions.
"This is a known feature of authoritarian governments — they create the reality of their lies,” he said. “They're telling people the story that they're going to manufacture, and to reverse-engineer reality to make true their vision of it, and that will require cherry-picking things because reality is just not convenient … and any counter-evidence is just evidence that there was a conspiracy against them to begin with.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...theory-michael-flynn-narcissist-a9510756.html
Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor who studies authoritarianism and propaganda, posits that the endgame for Trumpworld is to bring many of the baseless conspiracy theories about Obama, Trump, and other prominent Democrats that fall under the umbrella of “QAnon” into real life.
"They are reverse-engineering reality to fit their crazy conspiracy theories,” he explained. “They're trying to find any possible story that they can tell by taking things out of context and fitting them into their conspiracy theory.”
Stanley said Trump’s manic tweeting about “Obamagate” and the Justice Department’s actions in the Flynn case are clear statements of their intentions.
"This is a known feature of authoritarian governments — they create the reality of their lies,” he said. “They're telling people the story that they're going to manufacture, and to reverse-engineer reality to make true their vision of it, and that will require cherry-picking things because reality is just not convenient … and any counter-evidence is just evidence that there was a conspiracy against them to begin with.”