The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. Hes supercharged it.

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(The emphasis in the article exists in the original and duplicated in the OP -- Don)

The Daily 202: The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. He’s supercharged it.

By James Hohmann October 23 at 7:00 AM

THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump celebrated Sunday that his campaign to delegitimize the free press is working.

The president touted a Politico-Morning Consult poll published last week that found 46 percent of registered voters believe major news organizations fabricate stories about him. Just 37 percent of Americans think the mainstream media does not invent stories, while the rest are undecided. More than 3 in 4 Republicans believe reporters make up stories about Trump.

“It is finally sinking through,” the president tweeted.

The first rule of propaganda is that if you repeat something enough times people will start to believe it, no matter how false. Trump uses the bully pulpit of the presidency to dismiss any journalism he doesn’t like as “fake news.” This daily drumbeat has clearly taken a toll on the Fourth Estate.

Just this month, the president called on the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate U.S. news outlets, proposed reinstituting the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” and declared that broadcast networks should have their licenses “challenged and, if appropriate, revoked” after NBC published a story that embarrassed him. “It’s frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it,” he said in the Oval Office.

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1. Yes, this is how Goebbels established Hitler in Germany!

German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels

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2. Power never, ever enjoys serious criticism.

When we let too much power accumulate in too few hands with too little transparency, we guaranteed the death of the First Amendment. It is dying, and we don't get it back without redistributing some of that power first.