The authoritarianism virus
By GARRY KASPAROV
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 04, 2020 | 2:00 PM
... After three years of President Trump’s constant lies and extreme political polarization in the United States, the only people who believe anything Trump says do so mainly to spite their political enemies ...
... Thousands of Americans are dead, the world’s greatest experts are available, and the president’s son-in-law is lecturing us based on what he read on Wikipedia and Facebook that morning. Now the U.S. Navy is firing captains for warning about the spread of COVID-19 on their ships ...
... Incompetence is deadly enough on its own, but malice and corruption are never far behind in this administration. Trump has been waging war on American institutions and looking for ways to enrich himself and his cronies ...
... It’s an election year and it’s hard to overestimate the White House’s ability to exploit the crisis to advantage, legally and otherwise. Funds and resources can be sent, or not sent, based on political preferences ...
... authoritarianism spreads pandemics. It appears that the reverse is also true, that pandemics spread authoritarianism ...
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