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When Bill Maher asks if youve changed political parties, youd better have a good answer ready. On Fridays Real Time with Bill Maher, independent commentator, journalist and prolific author Fipp Avlon joined his desk. Im outraged by it, said Avlon, referring to the current administrations war on journalism, and Steve Bannons comments in particular, when he said that the media was conducting a war on America. The media here is the opposition party. They dont understand this country, said Bannon, asking journalists to quote him.

The Constitution mentions journalists. It mentions citizens. Weve got truth and facts on our side, and the Constitution, and I remind them that the majority of Americans voted for somebody elsetruth wins that war. To audience applause, Maher smiled. You just said we', he said slyly, referring to Avlons use of a unifying term to describe parties coming together against the declarations of the Trump White House that journalists be limited by sanctions and threats.

Youre an jndependent! said Maher gleefully. He just made you say we! as though Avlon had become a Democrat. Avlon protested, maintaining that he is indeed an independent, but stopped to explain, Thats actually what demagogues do. They always do us against them, and this administration keeps doing us against them. The real push-back is to refuse that! When I said we, I meant journalists, I meant citizens, I meant Americans!

With one week under its collective belt, the Trump administration is creating unity between people of different opinions in a way that seldom happens, and certainly in a way it didnt intend.

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