Just ask any dictator, a dangerous one like V. Putin, or any tin-pot authoritarian like V. Orban or D. Trump. Gut independent media by calling it slanted, biased, false, or just lying. 2016–2024.

“You know, when Trump talks about sending to jail people who were on that Jan. 6 committee, that sounds like being a tin-pot dictator,” Sanders said during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC ...