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Democracy is dependent on an informed public. This is why Trump and his underlings attack journalism and education so much.

They need ignorance to win elections. They need to be the only source of information to followers.

Political control requires factual relativism. Cynicism and anarchy are the parents of totalitarianism. https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-woke-isdespotism