Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.
Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.
They're not full of hate - they're full of fear and anger. Warranted fear and anger. Just misdirected
In Trump's last presidency, nothing fascist really happened. Bad things certainly, disastrous even, but honestly? Living through it, it was mostly business as usual. Things got worse, but the COVID response was really the worst, and there's no living comparison... So it's a mishandling of a unique crisis, so it was what it was
You don't understand propoganda.
One of the times I felt most ignorant was when I was working in France, and talking politics I called them socialist and they laughed. Because all my life, France was labeled socialist, I learned it in elementary school through college. I was already a leftist. But I never thought to evaluate my understanding of socialism against my understanding of French politics. And when called out, I immediately realized it was a complete blind spot and felt ashamed. I learned to doubt what I'd been taught, to examine my geopolitical beliefs more deeply. I'd never have done that without a wakeup call
They don't know what fascism is. They've never experienced it. The Nazis are unambigiously evil to them, but they don't know the fascism checklist. The news they consume reframes everything as normal partisan politics... It downplays it all to a degree that can only be described as lies.
They don't know that there's any inconsistency. They are the highest form of ignorant - they don't know to question yet