Washington Post: “In the 592 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 4,713 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.” “That’s an average of about eight claims a day.” ”When we first started this project for the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. But the average number of claims per day keeps climbing as the president nears the 600-day mark of his presidency.”
His approval rating among Republicans has only improved with the lying, what does say about the state of Democracy when almost half of the people love being lied to?
What bugs me is not that Trump is a Nazi, authoritarian narcissist etc. of course but that he is using fascist techniques (lies) to make support. I don't believe he is strongly racist (he is but not abnormally so) however to use Amorosa's term, is "racial" in that he uses race as a lever in his largely fascist derived propaganda. Using fascist techniques is a means to an end, Hitler and Mussolini were very different leaders as was Franco and the people had widely differing experiences. But he IS using proven fascist propaganda techniques and he is using race. The next guy will be far worse. What is interesting though is to think that Hitler for example got many of his ideas about race and how to persecute a group from Jim Crow. Eugenics was an American idea that he took onboard. If you go back to the 1850 Know Nothings, initiated by a Jewish immigrant of all things (also a profligate liar) you can see direct lines from this and capitalists to European fascism, it was a group effort.
Lincoln should have let these neanderthals have their own country, big mistake trying to assimilate them.
Perhaps. I have family on both sides and being a relatively wealthy bunch I had my hands on all sorts in the libraries of a few homes as a child. It was great, I even found a letter from General Jubal Early in an old schoolbook in a satchel. I'm guessing it went to a show-and-tell and got forgotten. A very striking precedent for lie-it-true in America before Trump is the Daughters of the South. Those hellacious bitches were straight out turning the lathe of heaven to re-invent history. My both sides of the pond view helped me see things as not US and European/other history but as complex system. I think in part this is why I've always felt quite disconnected from nationalism though it is there for sure.
Lincoln was a Republican. The Democrats regularly accused him of being a liar. Lincoln regularly used quips that may have been less than true to describe his opponents. The Democrats who assailed Lincoln wanted Blacks to be perpetually tied to the system and not to think for themselves. Lincoln was an authoritarian. He suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln was also accused of being a racist. He supported sending the blacks back to Africa saying they did not have the necessary skills to assimilate into American society. Starting to see the similarities.
Being a Republican is not the same as being a conservative, ask how many current Southern Republicans love Lincoln as opposed to the confederates he fought, you will get your answer. By your logic, Ronald Reagan and Rick Perry are liberals because they used to be Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-or-misleading-claims/?utm_term=.3b9ab314fcb2 President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims a day. But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark — an average of nearly 23 claims a day in this seven-month period, which included the many rallies he held before the midterm elections, the partial government shutdown over his promised border wall and the release of the special counsel’s report on Russian interference in the presidential election. This milestone appeared unlikely when The Fact Checker first started this project during his first 100 days. In the first 100 days, Trump averaged less than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger. As of April 27, including the president’s rally in Green Bay, Wis., the tally in our database stands at 10,111 claims in 828 days. In recent days, the president demonstrated why he so quickly has piled up the claims. There was a 45-minute telephone interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News on April 25: 45 claims. There was an eight-minute gaggle with reportersthe morning of April 26: eight claims. There was a speech to the National Rifle Association: 24 claims. There was 19-minute interview with radio host Mark Levin: 17 claims. And, finally, there was the campaign rally on April 27: 61 claims. The president’s constant Twitter barrage also adds to his totals. All told, the president racked up 171 false or misleading claims in just three days, April 25-27. That’s more than he made in any single month in the first five months of his presidency. About one-fifth of the president’s claims are about immigration issues, a percentage that has grown since the government shutdown over funding for his promised border wall. In fact, his most repeated claim — 160 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete wall he envisioned, and so he has tried to pitch bollard fencing and repairs of existing barriers as “a wall.” Trump’s penchant for repeating false claims is demonstrated by the fact that The Fact Checker database has recorded nearly 300 instances when the president has repeated a variation of the same claim at least three times. He also now has earned 21 “Bottomless Pinocchios,” claims that have earned Three or Four Pinocchios and which have been repeated at least 20 times. Trump’s campaign rallies continue to be a rich source of misstatements and falsehoods, accounting for about 22 percent of the total. The rally in Green Bay on April 27 was little different, with claims that covered a range of issues: — He exaggerated the size of trade deficits with Japan, China and the European Union and falsely claimed the United States loses money from such deficits. — He said he had “nothing to hide” from the Russia investigation but refused to testify under oath. — He continued his practice of inflating the jobs created under his administration by starting the count from the election, not his inauguration. — He launched a series of exaggerated or false attacks on Democrats, including claiming the Green New Deal will require every building in Manhattan be replaced (no) and saying Democrats support the killing of healthy babies that have been born (no). — He overstated the possible impact of the new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in myriad ways and trashed the North American Free Trade Agreement, even though the differences are modest. — He took credit for funding a program — the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — his administration tried to eliminate. — He made a series of false claims about immigration, such as “open borders bring tremendous crime” (there is no documented link between illegal immigration and crime). — He claimed he passed the biggest tax cut in history (no) and he said he had cut the estate tax to “zero” (no). — He said he was one vote away from repealing Obamacare (no). — He falsely said the United States paid for “almost 100 percent” of NATO (no), that Saudi Arabia inked $450 billion in deals with the Trump administration (no) and even that the United States subsidizes the Saudi military (U.S. aid amounts to $10,000 a year). — He even claimed that he insisted the new embassy in Jerusalem be made of Jerusalem stone even though ever since the British mandate in then-Palestine, municipal laws have required that all buildings must be faced with this local form of limestone that has a warm, golden hue. Note: The Fact Checker welcomes academic research into the Trump claims database. Recent examples include Erasmus University, University College London, and University of California at Santa Barbara. You can request our data files with an explanation of your research plans by contacting us at factchecker@washpost.com.