Robert Reich: Here's the 15-point playbook Trump is following to impose tyranny

[highplainsdem]

From Raw Story this morning:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/robert-reich-heres-the-15-point-playbook-trump-is-following-to-impose-tyranny/

As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:

1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.

2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.

3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”

4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”

5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.

6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.

-snip-

Consider yourself warned.

[pangaia]

1. Yes, I have seen this list several times, everywhere...

Good you posted it...

[BSdetect]

2. Next election?

If you still think we can win the next election explain how we deal with actual fascism running the country. Red states run elections to whatever tune they please. Courts will soon be right wing rubber stamps for even more oppressive laws.

Elections here are a sham now.

They were never that great. We do no need four year Presidential campaigns. Its total BS.

The GOP is a gutless group of nasty bigots who wil never want to deal with drumph.