CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement addressed, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs.
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As if invoking Orwellian villains wasn’t enough, Amanpour concluded by bringing up Benitio Mussolini, “Thomas Jefferson warned freedom is lost slowly. Some have talked about the frog in the pot where the water is slowly turned up and the heat slowly comes to boiling before they recognize it. A hundred and fifty years later, Benito Mussolini crowed that ‘Democracy brings us so much freedom, even the freedom to destroy itself.’ Edward R. Morrow said on his programs holding Senator Joe McCarthy to account, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. So, everybody, that’s my message to you. Let's get on with it, while the glass is still half full. Good luck to you. “
Comparing Trump’s America to Mussolini’s Italy. Now, that’s neither truthful nor neutral.
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