I’ve been thinking a lot about authoritarians lately.
Maybe you have, too.
Call them autocrats, despots, strongmen, bullies, dictators, oppressors, tyrants — the names may differ, but their behaviors are the same. 🧵1/
Signing an #ExecutiveOrder on social media tomorrow?
I wish he responded to coronavirus as vigorously as he responds to this made-up Twitter crisis. reuters.com/article/us-twi…
“Education has been defined as a bulwark against the acids of fascism and communism. Neither of these totalitarian forms of government can survive examination by educated men and women.” — President Truman, 1949
As a native of Missouri, Harry Truman would be horrified.
A 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in MN, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.