Quote of the Day

During his campaign, the president claimed on a Russian propaganda outlet that American "media has been unbelievably dishonest."  He banned many reporters from his rallies, and regularly elicited hatred of journalists from the public.  Like the leaders of authoritarian regimes, he promised to suppress freedom of speech by laws that would prevent criticism.  Like Hitler, the president used the words lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.  The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.

-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 73-74