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1. Joy Reid: MAGA Wouldn’t Even Consider It an “Insult” to Be Called “Fascists”

“I think about the fact that JD Vance once said that Donald Trump could be America’s Hitler. Who knew that he meant that as a compliment, right?...The second half of that sentence might have been, and ‘I will be his [Hermann] Goering.’...I actually don’t think at this point that, that the people in the MAGA movement would even consider it an insult to call them fascists.”
— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on The Joy Reid Show podcast, July 9. 

2. Tiffany Cross: “We are Normalizing” the “Disappearing of People” and Sending Them to “Concentration Camps”

“We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We are normalizing, we’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign….Everybody who says, ‘Oh this is not the America I know,’ I can guarantee you it is the America I know.”
— Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross on CNN’s Newsnight, July 8. 

Ken Burns: PBS Like the “Declaration of Independence” for “Communications World”

CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.”
Documentarian Ken Burns: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world.”
— CBS’s Face the Nation, July 6. 

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