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Saturday, April 28th, 2018

A majority of Republicans now say “media is the enemy of the people”

Author:     Matthew Rozsa
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     April 27, 2018 7:15pm (UTC)
 Link: A majority of Republicans now say “media is the enemy of the people”
Stephan:   All authoritarian governments are corrupt, and all wish to discredit the free press and bring it to heel by claiming it is "fake news." Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, and  Trump have all played this card. In the United States it has proven very effective with Republicans because, like all such authoritarian movements, they value power more than facts.

President Donald Trump may not be convincing most Americans that they should trust him over former FBI Director James Comey and the media, but he has definitely persuaded one group — his fellow Republicans.

Overall Americans believe Comey more than Trump by a whopping margin of 54 percent to 35 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. That said, among Republicans Trump is believed over Comey by 76 percent to 13 percent. White men are also more inclined to believe Trump by a margin of 47 percent to 39 percent, while white voters without any college degree are more likely to believe Trump by a margin of 47 percent to 40 percent. Aside from these groups, Comey is believed by most of the poll respondents within every other partisan, gender, racial, education and age group.

Not all of the news in the poll is good for Trump when it comes to his standing among Republicans. Fifty-nine percent of Republicans believe that Trump should not fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel who was appointed to investigate potential […]

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