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Mainstream News and the Political Apocalypse | James Ron | Minneapolis
a Mainstream News and the Political Apocalypse by James Ron | Sep 15, 2020 | Civil war in America?, James Ron, Politics, Research
The mainstream news is full of apocalyptic warnings from Trump o cials and supporters saying that if the Democrats win the national elections, it will only be because of voter and electoral fraud. As a result, Trump supporters are warning, the Federal government – in Trump’s hands – may have to take action to “save democracy.” Others warn that private, pro-Trump militias will be the ones to enforce a pro-Trump coup. It’s hard to know how to interpret this kind of loose crazy talk. I’ve spent most of my professional life studying the link between human rights abuse, regime instability, and political violence. I’ve watched as unscrupulous leaders from Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia to Pascal Lissouba in the Republic of Congo seized upon moments of systemic change and domestic instability to foment civil war with the help of o -the-book militias, often supplied with weapons and guidance by units working within the formal state, or by meddlesome https://jamesron.net/mainstream-news-and-the-political-apocalypse/
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