Then Spicer issued a dire warning: "The American people deserve better," he said. "As long as [Trump] serves as the messenger for this incredible movement, he will take his message directly to the American people."
We're not talking Roosevelt-like "fireside chats" here. Trump's tweets have already been firestorms of invective directed at critics, some of whom have been threatened by Trump followers stirred up by the tweets. And CEOs pray their companies aren't targets, because stock prices of the companies he's already vilified have dropped immediately after his diatribes.
Trump and his advisers -- Steven Bannon, formerly of "Breitbart News" as well as Spicer and others -- understand that if a significant portion of the public trusts Trump's own words more than they do the media's, Trump can get away with saying -- and doing -- whatever he wants. When that happens, our democracy ends.
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