The Press being intimidated threatens us all...please support reporters on all sides of the aisle
I was watching CNN and a Republican news reporter (who is never trump), was talking about how his family and he has been threatened by Trump supporters.. and I listened to the round table at how all had been attacked on line etc.. people coming to their homes, leaving horrific things on their facebook pages.. emails.. even interrupting phone calls.
What Donald Trump is doing right now with his constant call out that the press is crooked and getting his followers foaming at the mouth, might be the greatest threat to our democracy.. without a free press.. we will cease to exist.. it is the air we breathe in a democracy..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
"In 1933 Freedom of the Press was suppressed in Hitler's Germany by the Reichstag Fire Decree of President Paul Von Hindenburg, just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power. Hitler largely suppressed freedom of the press through Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.[21] The Ministry acted as a central control-point for all media, issuing orders as to what stories could be run and what stories would be suppressed. Anyone involved in the film industryfrom directors to the lowliest assistanthad to sign an oath of loyalty to the Nazi Party, due to opinion-changing power Goebbels perceived movies to have. (Goebbels himself maintained some personal control over every single film made in Nazi Europe.) Journalists who crossed the Propaganda Ministry were routinely imprisoned."