This, Is The President of The United States of America

“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening”

Trump At Kansas City Rally On Tuesday (video here)

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Propaganda seeks to create in the public a chronic sense of crisis, which in turn justifies the expansion of executive power and the secrecy surrounding it.

The executive then asserts his “presidential” qualities by conveying his determination to rise to crisis, whatever the crisis of the moment happens to be… .

Christopher Lasch, The Culture Of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

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