Can Freedom of the Press Survive Another Trump Presidency?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Lest Trump forget, a free and independent press is a critical cornerstone of democracy.
54% : It should be clear to all that Trump wants to trample on the fundamental freedoms which form the pillar of democracy.
39% : The Big Lie Theory, which Trump has championed, is based on the premise that the bigger and more pervasive the lie, the more the public perceives it as truth.
39% : Interestingly, Trump's former chief of staff, General John F. Kelly (retired), this week told The New York Times that Trump praised Hitler in private conversations.
33% : That's why it's instructive to recognize that autocratic regimes throughout history have resorted to the same corrosive phraseology which Trump has weaponized against the media, labeling it:If Trump returns to the White House, the American media landscape could radically shift to closely resemble an Orwellian massive government propaganda machine, as depicted in the iconic book "1984" (George Orwell's prescient novel).
31% : But under Trump, the adversarial nature of government-media relations was abusive and self-defeating to providing accurate and timely information to the public.
31% : The problem for the media and public has always been that Trump lives in a parallel universe of propaganda, one in which lies substitute for truth.
28% : In addition to being dangerous to democratic governance, it's pathetic that Trump has such a fragile ego and insecurity complex.
28% : That's why, more often than not, Trump lashes out at the media like a whining child who can't get his way.
23% : Trump has threatened to jail reporters, shutter news organizations and punish big tech companies that don't comply with his mandates.
22% : Trump has also threatened to jail journalists.
21% : During his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent time in the White House, Trump castigated the mainstream media as the "enemy of the people" regarding any coverage he deemed critical of his own political viewpoints -- or which he simply did not like for whatever reason.
21% : "VP Harris predicts that Trump "will sit in the Oval Office plotting retribution, stewing in his own grievances, and think only about himself and not you.
21% : That's exactly what Trump has done by insisting for years, without evidence, that the 2020 election was "rigged" because he lost -- along with a host of other crazy conspiracy theories since then.
19% : Nonpartisan fact checkers proved Trump wrong.
19% : Trump has threatened just about every media organization nationwide which has dared to be critical of him at one time or another.
19% : Harris cautioned that Trump is "unfit to serve" -- a statement with which many Republicans who served under him agree, from Cabinet secretaries to White House senior advisors.
19% : Next time you witness Trump castigating the free and independent press as "the enemy of the people" or "fake news" ask yourself these questions:Before answering, consider some other so-called "strong men" who intentionally abused the term "enemy of the people" (or something similar) to mislead the masses by maligning the media or other segments of society:"Ideas are more powerful than guns.
18% : Trump recently asserted the broadcast license of CBS should be revoked and the news program "60 Minutes" should be banished from the airwaves (after he canceled a scheduled interview).
15% : During his presidency, Trump threatened Google, Facebook and Twitter over questionable political censorship for allegedly silencing conservative voices.
14% : The same goes for traditional print/digital media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and dozens of other trusted news organizations which Trump classifies as "left-wing" and "fake news" or worse.

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