‘A telling moment has revealed the path the US president is on. And it’s a scary one’
If you heard that Donald Trump fired Erika Mcentarfer, President of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States, and replied by shrugging shoulder, you were probably not alone. Wasn’t this any other example of the US president who attacked someone who doesn’t like the findings?
It is not for the experts from the political corridor, which raises the alarm that this movement represents a completely different threat. Even from Trump. Speaking with the host Samantha Selfer-Morris Open The Morning Edition podcastOur International and Political Editor Peter Hartcher When the leader of a country begins to control the facts, it tells us what history is.
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SELinger-Morris: We know, I definitely know more than I did before, after reading your column, reliable statistics are absolutely important for democracy, right? So pass us through it. Why is it?
Hartcher: Well, what should be set to what interest rates should be set, but I think it’s a much larger picture and why this is a moment of expression, I think, if you have agreed on the point of reality, if you can agree on some official data, you have a starting point and even a end point for discussion and policy.
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However, if nothing is corrected, nothing is accepted and everything is subject to political manipulation, which is probably everyone suspects the future numbers, because Trump will ultimately be a politically reliable, reliable figure to run this office … So even if this person does honestly and meticulously, he will be a doubtful on the numbers produced by Buau.
It will be compensated now. There will be things. This is exactly what is in China when the Chinese government clearly deceives its figures to make growth look better. And in fact, “Oh, don’t worry about GDP figures,” former China’s former Prime Minister Li Keqiang was. “Human making,” he said. And he proposed an alternative formula to try to measure the growth in the Chinese economy while ignoring official statistics. And he became prime minister.
So this is a well -established model in autocratic societies. Not in the USA. Therefore, it is a great story, because part of the Trump administration’s tendency to transform the US into an autocratic mentality and political system deprives the country from objective reality and objective facts, so that everything later has become the source of a single reality in an autocratic system. Not there yet. Far from that. But the course he’s on. I think this is a real sign. And he still has three and a half years.
