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Stacey Abrams: “You criticize the media, and you create your own echo…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Stacey Abrams on Trump Pushing Our Country into Authoritarianism & Being a Black Woman in Politics

Published | Video Starts at 03:29

You put them in charge of the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, so they can signal to their friends and tell them all about the evil plans that you have. Then you make certain that you break how we communicate. So You criticize the media, and you create your own echo chamber of propaganda. You call it truth, even though you know you're lying. Then you go to the next step, and I call that step seven. Because at step seven, you have to blame someone. (03:29–03:34)

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Asserts that attacking the media and creating propaganda are steps toward autocracy.

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