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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She writes frequently about authoritarianism and Donald Trump for the media.

1 posted on 01/04/2021 4:47:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No.....Trump set up a brilliant sting operation, getting everything on record. Can’t wait for the Project Veritas videos to drop this morning as confirmation.


2 posted on 01/04/2021 4:49:23 AM PST by Be Careful
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Hilter” == you lost the argument


3 posted on 01/04/2021 4:49:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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How queer she brings up Hiltery Rotten Clinton’s coup/murder of Gadaffi...


4 posted on 01/04/2021 4:51:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are clinically insane.


6 posted on 01/04/2021 4:53:41 AM PST by HighSierra5
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Nothing
But
Crap


8 posted on 01/04/2021 4:58:42 AM PST by moovova
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Another anti Trump article posted by the old Econ buyer? Beginning to wonder about you dude.


10 posted on 01/04/2021 5:05:23 AM PST by TheRake (If they can force you to wear a mask, they can force you to do other things. Just the beginning.)
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Funny thing. When you look over your head and see nothing but incoming missiles for four years, you start to think you need the protection of a bunker...

On the other hand, look at frequent appearances among throngs of supporters and availability to the hostile press that this president has subjected himself to.

That’s hardly isolationism or ‘bunker mentality’, in my mind.

Idiots.


11 posted on 01/04/2021 5:06:06 AM PST by DJ Frisat (If you're not black, your life apparently doesn't matter...)
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Yet because Trump did not succeed in destroying democracy, the media and the political opposition have left a public record of the kinds of authoritarian dynamics we normally hear about only from exiles or dissenters. Large news outlets invested in new investigative teams to cover Trump's corruption, and their fact-checkers were kept busy calling out his lies.

Wow. Talk about projection.

The Left has been doing nothing but lies for five years.

They are the ones actively destroying democracy and the Republic.

12 posted on 01/04/2021 5:07:39 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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An NBC opinion is about as valuable as the toilet it was broadcast from.


14 posted on 01/04/2021 5:14:13 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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If this was ABC News we could say “A Mickey Mouse Operation”.


16 posted on 01/04/2021 5:17:26 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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Ruthie darling...

at this point its pretty obvious we’ve had a foreign coup disguised as a US Presidential election

it was “beautifully” and precisely timed. In fact it is about the ONLY POSSIBLE way to have taken down the USA


17 posted on 01/04/2021 5:18:16 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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Hitler is the first word in the article . I can simply ignore the rest of what she said


22 posted on 01/04/2021 5:33:26 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ruth’s descendents suffered and died so she could defend those aiming to repeat history.


23 posted on 01/04/2021 5:34:37 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (WHEN TYRANNY BECOMES LAW, REBELLION BECOMES DUTY)
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NBC: We opine, we decide.


25 posted on 01/04/2021 5:35:56 AM PST by windsorknot
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I’m thinking the msm election treason response was minimal as was the on the ground reporting in Georgia.

POTUS purposely made the call, knew it would leak, knew the press would salivate and run with any detrimental scoop eminating from the trump camp... THEREBY escalating the situation and COVERAGE to a wider viewing audience.


26 posted on 01/04/2021 5:37:36 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American historian and cultural critic. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders. Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She is also a graduate in good standing of the Benito Mussolini school of journalism.


28 posted on 01/04/2021 5:43:15 AM PST by Bookshelf
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat—I’ve never heard of this bimbo, but she exhibits the irrational imagination of a dangerously crazed woman who is screaming for help. Perhaps an extended stay at the funny farm could help her. Or perhaps not.


29 posted on 01/04/2021 5:45:41 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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The left always engages in projection. Biden ran his entire campaign from his bunker and is still there as far as I know. One would think that an expert on fascism would recognize that the 20th century fascists were all socialists and today’s socialists are all fascists. This woman appears to be one sick, confused puppy.


33 posted on 01/04/2021 6:02:03 AM PST by jospehm20
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On Saturday, Trump literally begged Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the election results.

This statement is a shameful unsupported assertion by someone with an axe to grind.

Just another "Baghdad Bob" translating events into what they want us to believe.

One thing it is part of a constant drumbeat of negative spin on anything and everything Trump says and does.

It is predictable, tedious, and repetitious.

What kind of garbage is she regurgitating at NYU? Are her students forced to accept her version of history?

37 posted on 01/04/2021 6:50:29 AM PST by olezip
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Large news outlets invested in new investigative teams to cover Trump’s corruption,


Regardless of whether there was basis for the charge, and in pointed fact when it was his accusers who were actively engaged in the corruption claimed.

and their fact-checkers were kept busy calling out his lies.


By expounding on their own illiteracy, or by calling truth lies.


38 posted on 01/04/2021 6:53:03 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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