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On a spectrum he is definitely in that direction. There are many examples but a few: a) Publicly shamed a civil servant with full knowledge it would drive the
by threeseed 2y ago
On a spectrum he is definitely in that direction. There are many examples but a few:
a) Publicly shamed a civil servant with full knowledge it would drive the violent elements of his supporters to attack her. I've never seen this before in US politics where an innocent party was targeted this way and clearly it was done to drive fear within the government.
b) Has constantly promoted false stories about immigrants, black people, trans people, women etc. The narrative being that the US is a zero sum game where in order for non-white males to succeed white-males must lose.
c) I run Twitter business accounts which are post-only and every single one shifted hard towards showing ultra-right wing political content in the For You feed. There is no doubt that the platform was used as a propaganda tool during the last election.
- HideousKojima 2y ago>a) Publicly shamed a civil servant with full knowledge it would drive the violent elements of his supporters to attack her. I've never seen this before in US politics where an innocent party was targeted this way and clearly it was done to drive fear within the government. Hmm, you must have missed when the Department of Justice sent protestors to Florida to pressure a local district attorney into pressing charges against a very clearly innocent man. And if you disagree with the very clearly innocent part then you definitely didn't watch the trial and missed the eyewitness reports and the medical reports. https://theweek.com/articles/462236/did-justice-department-incite-2012-trayvon-martin-protests https://theweek.com/articles/462236/did-justice-department-i...
- threeseed 2y agoThat article never says that DOJ sent protestors. Just that they provided support to those protests which is part of their remit i.e. to reduce conflict by encouraging dialog, mediation as opposed to protesting etc: https://www.justice.gov/crs https://www.justice.gov/crs