Originally Posted by
Guisslapp
You may have missed the attacks on the media, exclusion of selected press, promotion of the press that agrees with the administration, the consideration of loosening libel laws for public figures to sue the media, the outright lying by the president and his official spokespersons, the attack on judges, the firing of top ranking justice officials that disagree with him or his alternate views of the facts or constitution, his insistence on loyalty to him above all else that have hallmarked nearly every day of his first 100 days - but I haven't.
It is a troubling trend and coupled with his campaign rhetoric that tickles the chords of fascism, I have major concerns... which only grow as his supporters seem to be so locked into his propaganda channels and so willing to oblige each step he takes towards despotism.
At some point you can't stop the momentum of it all, but I think so many otherwise principled republicans are so happy to think they might get their sacred cows - tax reform, border wall, repeal of Obamacare, Supreme Court picks - that they are a little too willing to overlook the troubling pattern that had emerged.