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When you become the enemy

The “enemy of the people,” President Trump said Sunday, is the American media. Amid his numerous slogans, the phrase has made many people especially recoil because of its centrality in a chilling moment of 20th century history: Josef Stalin’s 1930s show trials.

Why it matters: The trials demonstrated how the indictment of one class of people can rapidly spiral and cut across society.

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Head In Ass Train Comments on August 2, 2018 in Politics.
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