New York Times Loses It With Prominent Anti-Trump Video: 'How Tyranny Begins' #Political
A video on the New York Times homepage, “Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World,” by Opinion Video staffers Kiana Cole and Adam Westbrook, served up five minutes of anti-Trump paranoia, featuring foreign academics, journalists, and activists warning about how authoritarianism began in their respective countries (including Russia, Singapore, Hungary, and Nicaragua). Even before Trump clips appeared at the three-and-a-half-minute mark, the hint was clear: This is what Trump’s second term could look like! (Why his first term had no resemblance to this is left unclear).
Here's the full text accompaniment:
Exile. Imprisonment. The end of elections. We know what tyranny looks like once it’s underway.
But how does it start?
In the Opinion Video above, you’ll meet people from around the world who missed the warning signs of tyranny taking root in their home countries.
They can see the red flags, in retrospect. And they have a word of caution: The rule of law doesn’t break down overnight, and checks and balances don’t collapse in an instant.
Tyranny takes time.
More than four years, apparently, the length of Trump’s first term. But be patient and have fear -- it’s coming! The video is straining to find parallels.
After a Hungarian academic banned from teaching says, “If you are used to living in a democratic society, you don’t expect that the government can go ahead and closed a university,” there’s a Trump clip promising “to fire the radical-left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.”
After a Russian journalist said “right now there is no independent media outlets in Russia, no freedom of speech,” there’s a cut to a Trump audio clip of a call-in to Fox News, “ABC, they’re the most dishonest, in my opinion, the most dishonest news organization.” So criticizing the way a network covers you is a sign of an emerging authoritarian dictator?
Abe Greenwald wrote in his Commentary newsletter:
….The video is a silly and ill-considered piece of propaganda. For one thing, the methods of creeping tyranny it describes -- media suppression, creating false narratives, lawfare, financial targeting of enemies -- are reminiscent of Biden administration tactics. For another, the project belittles true suffering under tyranny by comparing it with American life under Trump.
Indeed, the Biden Administration went after its political enemies via lawfare (see: Trump, Donald), and restricted freedom of speech on social media in the name of fighting COVID, racism, and bias against transgenders. The New York Times itself has pushed for the Fox News Channel to be banned, both overseas and at home. Can "tyranny begin" that way as well?
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