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The war hero gets it

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“That’s how dictators get started,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “They get started by suppressing a free press. In other words, a consolidation of power. When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press.”

“I’m not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator,” the senator said. “I’m just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.”

“If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and, many times, adversarial press,” McCain explained. “And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time.”

“I hate the press,” McCain said, half-jokingly. “I hate you, especially. But the fact is we need you.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/thats-how-dictators-get-started-mccain-critics-blast-trumps-view-of-the-media-as-the-enemy-175623700.html
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