Sam Harris

There is no way of looking at that footage

to justify that claim that was obvious from the beginning.

And no one, I mean, these aren't errors.

These aren't normal errors.

No one corrects an error.

No one apologizes.

No one says, oh yeah, so we had some initial reports.

We got that wrong.

Obviously we've got to investigate this.

There's a sense of completely unprofessional

contempt being expressed for half of American society.

The framing of everything is that we have an enemy within and we are now going to war against that enemy.

And the enemy within is basically everyone who didn't vote for Trump and who isn't going to ratify his excesses at every turn.

If you saw this happening in any other society, you could safely assume that those people were living under a dictatorship.

This is not hyperbole.

I mean, I'm not saying we live under a dictatorship, you know, fully achieved at this point.

But what we're seeing in the streets of Minneapolis and what we're seeing communicated from the Oval Office on down is fascist style governance.

There's just no question about that.

Yeah.

It's hard to know what to do about it.