Trump and his allies have taken another leaf out of the Nazis’ playbook.
What follows is a snippet from Addlestone, the first book of The Addlestone Chronicles trilogy:
James’s math tutor, Richard Chillingworth, said, “Last month, Hitler banned all opposition parties in order to consolidate his power base after Von Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor in January 1935. His first executive order was to appoint Joseph Goebbels to head what he termed the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. I’ve read that its primary purpose has been to disseminate a consistent message through a government-controlled press. The Nazis’ word for this principle is Gleichschaltung. Newspapers that disagreed with the party line have been attacked, boycotted, and summarily shuttered.”
Trump recently successfully sued CBS and ABC for their news reporting, and now he is suing the Des Moines Register for publishing a pre-election opinion poll showing him trailing Kamala Harris.