By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--February 8, 2017
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Here’s how lynch mobs form, in the age of the alt-right and “alternative facts.” First, you inadvertently wave a red flag at an arena full of bulls. Then you sit back and wait for the internet to do its dark magic. In my case, the red flag was a few paragraphs at the end of a recent column, speculating on what would happen if Donald Trump truly and dangerously lost his marbles. I wondered about one “possibility … that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders”: Of course Brooks is lying about how it was just “a few paragraphs at the end of a recent column, speculating on what would happen if Donald Trump truly and dangerously lost his marbles.” She’s lying to mitigate the damage she did.
Are we really stuck with this guy? It’s the question being asked around the globe, because Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared.Here is a screen grab of the passage:
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
His new book Subversion Inc. can be bought at Amazon.com (US), Amazon.ca (Canada)
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