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THREAD: @BillMoyers talks with journalist @JeffSharlet, whose reporting for @VanityFair describes how Trump the orator has turned his reelection campaign into a militant crusade fueled by conspiracy theories and rhetoric that incites violence. #podcast https://billmoyers.com/story/bill-moyers-talks-with-jeffrey-sharlet-about-tulsa-trump-and-america/
2/ Many dismissed Trump's speech in Tulsa, which was attended by ~6K people, but it was reportedly viewed by ~7 million on Fox News, the biggest Saturday night audience in the network’s 24-year history, the Nielsen company said. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-23/trumps-tulsa-rally-scores-big-ratings-for-fox-news-channel
3/ "He gave what I believe was the most rhetorically violent speech I’ve seen," @JeffSharlet says about Tulsa. "All these moments have been there before, but they were combined with a kind of explicitness. I haven’t heard them all in one speech before like this."
4/ "The one thing that actually really caught me was this strange phrase, 'After birth execution,' claiming that if Biden was president the government would be paying for after birth execution: killing babies." — @JeffSharlet
5/ "If you really believe Democrats were gonna do that, if you really believe — we’re not talking abortion, [Trump said] actually killing babies out in the world — what retaliation wouldn’t be justified?" — @JeffSharlet
6/ "When people saw that Tulsa speech and they said, 'Oh, he was incoherent and it was a bad speech.'
That was a masterful speech. I think that was an extremely effective speech." — @JeffSharlet
That was a masterful speech. I think that was an extremely effective speech." — @JeffSharlet
7/ "What he does is repugnant, it’s crass, it’s crude, it’s evil. But he’s very good at it. And consoling ourselves by saying, oh what a moron, et cetera – that’s setting ourselves up for 4 more years or, as he likes to say maybe 8, maybe 16 of Trump." — @JeffSharlet
"I think liberals [imagine] that they are the center of things and that this is an aberration. And that we can just restore the old order. We need to recognize that that order has been overturned." — @JeffSharlet
8/ Listen to the entire 'Moyers On Democracy' podcast interview at our website: https://billmoyers.com/story/bill-moyers-talks-with-jeffrey-sharlet-about-tulsa-trump-and-america/ or via your favorite podcast player. #Election2020 #TulsaTrumpRally #MoyersOnDemocracy
9/ And then read @JeffSharlet's article in this month's @VanityFair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/inside-the-cult-of-trump-his-rallies-are-church-and-he-is-the-gospel /END
