the table in 2015, what he executed while in office, what he is still peddling too eager crowds today are the politics of vengeance, of othering, and of retribution. of using the power of the federal government as a weapon. trump s autocratic tendencies, the cost attacks on the press, the persistent stream of lies, the threats, to prosecute anyone he perceives to be his enemy are all straight out of the strongman playbook. it is akin to the rhetoric and behavior of the heads of state of russia s bottom up and north korea s kim jong-un hungary s viktor orban autocrats who have been reviewed by the international community but nonetheless earned occasional praise from donald trump himself autocrats can tolerate power by shutting down any sort of criticism to jeopardize their position. that is the threat that donald trump proposes to democracy, but you don t need to take my word for it. ruth ben-ghiat is professor of history and why you have spent many years studying autocrats
projected. ron desantis closed the beaches, the restaurants, the bowling alleys and the nightclubs and he issued an executive order asking all floridians to limit their movement. he did not keep florida open like he says he does. now the leader of the vaccine hesitancy movement, got the vaccine himself and rushed the vaccines to his highest dollar contributors. and then you move to whether or not he is truly less government and he s not. look, it is not the role of government to regulate gender identity and gender fluidity. it s a basic premise of less government and the left s embrace of personal freedom. it is not the role of limited government or of a limited government to allow gun violence to perpetuate across the state and risk harm to our kids. he is doing that. and now his attacks on the press, i know we were talking in the previous segment about this, nicolle, it will be his law in florida that gets tested by the supreme court. his new law will unleash the plaintiff s bar to g
way it a bunch of different countries. the only thing they have in common is they have authoritarian leaders. we see attacks on the press in russia and attacks on the press in the philippines. you also see it in hungary under their authoritarian leader. in hungary the way their leader did it was he got his party and oligarchs to forcibly take over ownership of about 80% of the entire media landscape in the nation of hungry. then the remaining 20% independent press that they didn t out right on they started revoking the license. calling them what else fake news . in hungary they led his country into a full-blown moral panic aboutpeople and trans
a form of protection. now there s a concern it makes you an actual target. and the second thing is, the rising threat to journalists outside of war zones. this year alone, cpj confirmed murders of mexico alone and higher, 7, which would put it at the same level as the conflict in ukraine. that s unimaginable in a country that is a democracy, that is not at war, those are journalists in local context reporting on local issues like corruption who are being killed for their work. what are your priorities now as the new president of cpj to try to both raise awareness of this and stop it? my priorities will be to continue the great work that cpj has done in documenting these attacks on the press, raising awareness about those threats, particularly, i think, in democracies. we need to be aware that these threats to journalists are not somewhere far away.
brace for is trump to resume and amp up his attacks on the press, like we saw when he was president. here s just the latest example of the delusion on part of trump s enablers and his attempt to keep the coup doing, intimidation going. after president biden call add fox reporter an s.o.b. on a hot mic earlier this past week, gop congressman jim banks tweeted, have we ever seen a president attack and malign the free press like joe biden has? sort of did he memory hole the whole thing? this is what trump did. just a small sample of it when in office. the fake news is, in fact, i hate to say this, in fact, the enemy of the people! thank you for telling me that. see, there s a typical fake news deal. no. look look. i told you when she was appointed. you re a third-rate reporter. what you just said is a disgrace. when you report fake news, which