“It's so ironic they [the Democratic Party] spent four years claiming they are fighting fascism and authoritarianism, and what are they trying to do now? They're trying to harness corporate and monopoly power to silence everyone who disagrees with them, the very hallmark, the epitome of the fascism they claim to be fighting, but which in reality they embody.”

"Greenwald: Democratic Party the epitome of fascism they claim to fight" https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/greenwald-democratic-party-the-epitome-of-fascism-they-claim-to-fight, Fox News, 25 January 2021.

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