“’Despots want science that has practical results,’ said Paul R. Josephson, an emeritus professor of history at Colby College and author of a book on totalitarian science. ’They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims.’” (Gift link)
“’In a recent essay, Dr. Josephson … cast Mr. Trump’s acts as brazenly totalitarian. … ’Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,’ Dr. Josephson wrote [in a recent essay]. ’He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.’” See also this distortion of reality:
Republican logic is an oxymoron, to put it mildly. In the end only broken promises and lies.