Susan Glasser Draws Trump-Stalin Comparison: Stalin Considered Anyone Against Him the Enemy of the People

RUSH EXCERPT:

GLASSER: "You know, look, I think that it was an important and necessary cri de couer from the national press. The president of the United States has called the media the enemy of the people. Having lived for four years in Russia, I’m very sensitive to the idea. It’s been used by many dictators over time but nowhere to more deadly affect than the Soviet Union where Joseph Stalin considered anyone against him the enemy of the people. That was the sentence used to send many people to the gulag and to their death. When the president uses that rhetoric, that’s important sign that you can actually speak up for the Constitution and whether you’re Democrat or Republican, the press should speak out in this situation, I think. It’s urgent and incumbent upon them to do so."