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Post by the Scribe on Jan 16, 2021 9:33:53 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 16, 2021 9:40:24 GMT
It's not just historians who call Trump's fiction that he won the election the Big Lie. Republicans in Congress amplified Trump's falsehood. Conservative media (propaganda machine) is also behind these lies. They're all part of The Big Lie. The term originated in Nazi Germany, embodied in Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels and the great lie - you keep repeating the lie, repeating the lie. Hitler used the phrase Big Lie in his manifesto, "Mein Kampf." The Nazis' Big Lie, blaming Jews for everything wrong in the world, fueled anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Trump is the high priest of the Big Lie. And Trump has been our post-truth president.
When you take away facts, you're opening the way for something else. You're opening the way for someone who says, I am the truth. "I am your voice," to quote Mr. Trump. Which is something that fascists said, as a matter of fact. The three-word chants. Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock them all up. The idea that the press are the enemy of the people is also part of the big lie.
The Big Lie's roots are in Nazi Germany. Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election is a colossal falsehood meant to subvert the transfer of presidential power and to incite violence. This is clearly a lie on a large scale that was meant to have political consequences and was also intended to pit one group of people within society against another. Trump has told so many falsehoods that he has effectively normalized lying. And he's taken his cues from the autocrats he publicly admires.
Trump's use of the Big Lie comes from an age-old authoritarian playbook. It's part of a much larger discourse of throwing any mechanism of democracy, any democratic institution into doubt. While Trump will soon be gone from the White House he's also going to carry his victimhood cult with him, which will be stronger than ever. So we haven't seen the last of those lies and the pernicious effects they're going to have on our democracy.
THE LIE WILL OUTLAST THE LIAR!
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