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As we enter the end stages of democratic America, this is a historical marker. Despite hyperbolic claims of it coming from the left, it is being supercharged by Trump. (I can't claim credit for the OP Title, it came from Charlie Sykes.) The attacks on media and faux terrorism declarations are a subterfuge for censorship.
"First things first: Jimmy Kimmel is only the second late-night comedian to be a casualty of American Orbánism. But before we get going, I want to note an observation from nine months ago, just three days into Trump’s second term:
Seth Meyers: You are officially on the clock."
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It is a consistent theme of Trump and the regime to force compliance. What is the impetus for this? It's not hard to find.
"In 1995, the Italian novelist and critic Umberto Eco perceived a “ghost stalking Europe (not to speak of other parts of the world).” That ghost was fascism.
Eco explained that “fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas.” Nonetheless he argued that “in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.”
"First things first: Jimmy Kimmel is only the second late-night comedian to be a casualty of American Orbánism. But before we get going, I want to note an observation from nine months ago, just three days into Trump’s second term:
Seth Meyers: You are officially on the clock."
First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel
What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?
www.thebulwark.com
It is a consistent theme of Trump and the regime to force compliance. What is the impetus for this? It's not hard to find.
"In 1995, the Italian novelist and critic Umberto Eco perceived a “ghost stalking Europe (not to speak of other parts of the world).” That ghost was fascism.
Eco explained that “fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas.” Nonetheless he argued that “in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.”