The BBC Compares Trump's Rhetoric to That of Stalin and Mao

[LudwigPastorius]

(Trump's) use of "enemies of the people" raises unavoidable echoes of some of history's most murderous dictators.

Under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, out-of-favour artists and politicians were designated enemies and many were sent to hard labour camps or killed. Others were stigmatised and denied access to education and employment.

And Chairman Mao, the leader of China who presided over the deaths of millions of people in a famine brought about by his Great Leap Forward, was also known to use the phrase against anyone who opposed him, with terrible consequences.

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Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine, called the phrase a "chilling" example of "full-on dictator speak".

More here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39015559

This article is going to irritate that giant, rancid circus peanut.

[Blaukraut]

1. Minute Maid Mao!! n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

2. ROFL!

[QC]

3. Well, Bannon does call himself a Leninist,

so it makes sense that communist denunciations would be part of his political vocabulary.

How long before th e running dogs of imperialism make an appearance.

[meow2u3]

5. Bannon might call himself a Leninist

But he's really a Stalinist. His goal is to commit a genocide that would make the Holocaust look like child's play.

[QC]

8. I agree. He's no Lenin. n/t

[RKP5637]

4. It really is the SOS warmed up by Trump and his gang. n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

6. As the article asks,...

how long will it be before Trump's MAGAts start taking shots at reporters and federal judges?

[RKP5637]

9. Nothing about this regime will surprise me. I was just wondering how long before for

some inane reason he declares martial law across the US.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. We're maybe just one 9/11 style terrorist attack away,...

or two Supreme Court appointments.

[northoftheborder]

7. "giant, rancid circus peanut".

words to save

[RKP5637]

10. ...

[mwooldri]

12. Auntie's calling out Agent Orange.

Keep reporting the truth, BBC.

I totally trust the BBC (and ITN) over #45. They know telling the truth works, they've been doing it longer than #45 has been alive. Telling the truth, even if it wasn't favourable to the British Government has worked for the BBC. It best Goebbels in WW2. When the Soviet Union fell, Gorbachev was detained for a while; he kept up to date via BBC Russian Service... He said BBC was credible.

Bad news for #45 is that in 4, 8, more years time BBC will still be there. He will eventually leave office. Eventually people will figure out the truth, even the supporters of Agent Orange.

[etherealtruth]

13. An apt description of 45

Unfortunately, 45 and his ship of fools will never see or hear of it