As Ruth Ben-Ghiat says, the wall-to-wall lying we're seeing Trump engage in right now as the election nears is par for the course for authoritarians, who have to control reality for their followers. She says that "Trump’s campaign … is better understood as a disinformation and radicalization machine."
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-authoritarians-fortress-of-lies