To protect US democracy from tyrants, we must protect the truly free press | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump and his lapdogs have lionized Victor Orbán and Hungary's Fidesz party, which transformed a once-vibrant democracy into a one-party state, muzzling the media and rewarding the wealthy.
36% : Trump also used virulent rhetoric towards journalists.
35% : Come 20 January, Trump and his toadies - including billionaires such as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy - will have total control over the executive branch of the United States government.
35% : Evidence is mounting that Russia and other foreign agents used Musk's X platform to disrupt the US presidential campaign in favor of Trump.
3% : The New York Times headlined its report on the September 2024 presidential debate between the president-elect and Kamala Harris - in which Trump issued conspiracy theories about stolen elections, crowd sizes, and Haitian immigrants eating pet cats and dogs - as: Harris and Trump bet on their own sharply contrasting views of America.

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