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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts)
Mon Jan 18, 2021, 07:35 PM Jan 2021

Trump's Big Lie and truth are in an epic battle for the soul of America

The media must explode this generation's Big Lie: Donald Trump's assertion that he really won the election and "voter fraud" handed a false victory to Joe Biden.

Trump and his handmaids on Fox, et al, have pushed his Big Lie so hard and so far that more than half of Republicans fully believe it -thus some are predictably acting on it, from the January 6th failed coup to armed protests at state capitols all around the nation. As long as they believe the Lie, they're not going to stop or go away.

If our media keeps failing to point out that voter fraud largely doesn't exist in America, and that Biden won by about 7 million votes fair and square, our political crisis will slide from bad to worse, more blood will be shed, and our republic may never recover.

The media must point out the fact that Trump is simply repeating the old fascist Big Lie playbook that, 80 years ago, brought the world to its knees, and nearly shattered our federal government.

They must tell the truth to the two-thirds of Republicans who fully believe the election was stolen by voter fraud.

Trump's Big Lie is now so widely believed among Fox-watching, Limbaugh-listening, Facebook-reading police and military members that the Secret Service is vetting individual soldiers coming into DC for the inauguration out of fear that Big Lie true believers among the National Guard may use their weapons to make a second try at an internal coup or even attempt to assassinate President Biden or Vice President Harris.

Trump brought us this, but it's not new.

Adolf Hitler rolled out his Big Lie at the 1924 Beer Hall Putsch, claiming that Germany didn't actually lose World War I, but that a premature surrender negotiated by Jews and communists prevented Germany's final and inevitable victory.

He fired a shot into the ceiling of a busy Munich beer hall to get everyone's attention, gave a fiery hour-long speech that whipped the crowd into a frenzy, and ordered them to march to the nearby seat of Bavaria's government to invade the building and seize the state. It was the failed coup attempt that landed him in prison.

But even in prison, Hitler continued to preach...

entire story at: https://thomhartmann.medium.com/the-big-lie-and-truth-are-in-an-epic-battle-for-the-soul-of-america-d4cab6b06358

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Trump's Big Lie and truth are in an epic battle for the soul of America (Original Post) thomhartmann Jan 2021 OP
There is a battle between the lies and the truth that is being fought in the media also. kentuck Jan 2021 #1

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
1. There is a battle between the lies and the truth that is being fought in the media also.
Mon Jan 18, 2021, 08:08 PM
Jan 2021

We know who has spread the lies near and far. The spotlight must be on them.

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