‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing
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‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing
The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say
Donald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the “enemy within” and “radical left” in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.