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“Kleptocratic Authoritarianism” 0

Thom talks with David Frum about Donald Trump. Excerpt:

Authoritarianism goes where the people are, and where is the traffic? It’s on line. If the public realm is the town square, you try to take over the town square. If the public realm is Twitter and Facebook, you try to take over Twitter and Facebook.

(snip)

The benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the ability to persecute the innoncent; it is the ability to protect the guilty.

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