A sentence that begins, “People like Putin and Steve Bannon …,” tells the savvy observer that he is watching a demagogue in
action, a demagogue of the worst sort – the smarmy, smiley-face, sanctimonious kind, the kind that children will follow.
The above sentence was one Barack Obama gem out of many in a talk at Stanford last April titled “Disinformation Is a Threat to Our Democracy.”
In September of this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued the sequel to Obama’s talk with the shorthand title, Missouri v. Biden. Both should be required reading.
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