"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing to side with truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

Trump's "Bully Lies" are from the autocrat's handbook.

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats…

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
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#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen: 9780593332245 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past fe...

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Interview: Trump's "Bully Lie" is from the autocrat's handbook.

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats…

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5…

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen: 9780593332245 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past fe...

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