American Fascism: Why Trump’s base turned into a religious cult that will blindly follow him off a cliff, and how to break the spell.
American Fascism, Chapter 1
“American Fascism is absolutely brilliant and the most accurate explanation of political reality that I read during Trump’s presidency. It is frightening but clarifying and very inspiring.”
Michael Marciano, Bureau Chief, Connecticut Law Tribune
Dear Republican,
if all the lies Fox News tells you about liberals were actually true, I’d hate liberals too. Who wouldn’t?
But that’s the thing: virtually nothing you are being told about liberals is actually true. It’s propaganda, designed to demonize liberals.
FORMER FOX NEWS ANALYST CALLS NETWORK A “DESTRUCTIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE”
For 10 years, Ralph Peters regularly appeared on Fox News to offer military analysis and insight as one of the cable network’s reliably conservative commenters. But he quit in March in disgust.
Mr. Peters, who announced his departure in a blistering farewell note to his colleagues, followed up on Wednesday with another searing attack, saying that the network was “doing a great, grave disservice to our country.”
The retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army spoke on CNN in his first television interview since his departure. “With the rise of Donald Trump, Fox did become a destructive propaganda machine,” Mr. Peters said. “And I don’t do propaganda for anyone.”
HOW FOX NEWS EVOLVED INTO A PROPAGANDA OPERATION
A media scholar on the dangerous evolution of Fox News.
Fox News has always been a partisan news network. But people are increasingly questioning whether it has crossed a line in the Trump era and become an outright propaganda operation.
A recent piece by the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer is the latest to pose this question. Back in 2017, the New Republic’s Alex Shephard floated a similar argument, writing that “Donald Trump is treating Fox News like state TV.”
Even Bret Baier, a lead anchor at Fox News, addressed the claims in a 2018 interview with the New Yorker, saying it “pains” him to hear that the cable news channel has become “state TV” for the Trump administration.”
Bill Maher keeps asking the guests on his show: “Why is the D for Democrat so toxic in red states?”
Most liberals honestly have no idea why you Trump voters hate liberals so much.
This is why:
You’re being lied to, to make you hate liberals.
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