"The Big Lie is back, and its revival marks an escalation. The first time, it supported the mission of overturning one election that didn’t go the way the Lie’s creator, President Donald Trump, needed it to go."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-foreign-interference
"This time, it’s not one election at stake: it’s all American elections, which, Trump tell us, should be 'nationalized' and managed by Republicans to fight the kinds of fraud and interference which deprived him of his 2020 win. ...
The more unpopular an autocrat becomes, the more he needs his lies to create the reality necessary to keep himself in power. That is where we are now in the United States."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism
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"Trump’s determination to prove that he actually won the 2020 election continues to drive the administration. This morning, in a rambling and often crazed speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump told attendees: 'They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism #NationalPrayerBreakfast
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