McCain defends raises specter of dictatorship
David Jackson , USA TODAY
Published 12:35 p.m. ET Feb. 19, 2017 | Updated 19 minutes ago
... "If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free -- and many times adversarial — press," said Sen. John McCain ...
Matt Mackowiak, a Texas-based Republican political consultant, said ... "The campaign is over" ... "It's time for governing and governing requires persuasion" ...
Nicole Renee Hemmer, assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, said ... "Trump has a tendency to blur the distinctions between himself, the government, and the people, more so than any modern president. And his wholesale attacks on the press soften the ground for anti-press action."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/19/donald-trump-john-mccain-media-enemy-of-the-people/98126656/