You can't have justice without truth. You just can't.
These attempts to hide the truth -- whether through deliberate lies, institutional obfuscation, or pure gutlessness -- only hurt the pursuit of justice and hurt actual people. An informed public is a powerful public.
I also think about Harry Truman. The part where he had to explain "I never gave anyone hell. I told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
In another tweet Kendzior wrote:
People should be concerned that all the scholars of authoritarianism have been issuing the same warnings for three years. Politically we are not the same; you'll find progressives, conservatives etc. It's not like we agree on everything. But we recognize a textbook dictatorship.
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