A President brings people to media events to clap for him and signal approval. He pays actors to applaud him when he announces his intention to run for President. He declares the day of his inauguration " A Day of Patriotic Devotion." He also tells people at the C.I.A. that the media made up stories of his animosity towards them, ignoring the videos of press conferences and tweets where he did just that.
This same person and his followers in the alt media gain support by blaming societies ills on the "other", the individuals that do not look like most of the members of the cabinet and staff. There are token African Americans (two) but no Hispanics I think there is one Asian. This is not a cabinet that looks like America.
This person's counselor said that there is such a thing as alternative facts which propelled literate informed people to have flash backs to high school and college readings of 1984. The Presidents cabinet choices believe in alternate realities. The Secretary of Labor Nominee does not believe in the minimum wage and thinks robots would be good substitutes for fast food workers. The Education Nominee thinks public dollars should go to religious schools. The EPA nominee does not think climate change is real/humanity influenced.
This persons press secretary said the crowd at the inauguration was the highest in history. Aerial photographs do not lie here.
The White House Web Site took out the pages on Native American Rights, Climate Change, LGBT rights and the Spanish version of the site.
AND THIS IS ALL IN THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
Mussolini and Hitler did not have the support of the majority of the people when the King of Italy/President of Germany made the fateful decisions to appoint them to their posts.
President Trump does not have the support of the majority of the people either.
Protests like the Women's March over the weekend are needed to continue so the specter of fascism-extreme right wing populism do not not show its ugly head.
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