Snyder: Trump administration using words like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ is what tyrants do

Professor Timothy Snyder's new article in the Boston Globe is titled, The Political Logic of Trump's Violent Lawlessness. Professor Snyder writes, The moral horror wrought by President Trump's second administration is incontrovertible. The aspiring tyrant looks for cracks in the system that can be pried open.One of these cracks is the border, where the country ends, because the law ends there too. An obvious move for the tyrant is to turn the whole country into a border where no rules apply. Soviet leader J ...