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Americans started drawing parallels between Orwell's realities and the Trump Administration as early as his first day in office, when Press Secretary Sean Spicer berated and lied to the media in his first briefing.

In our Orwellian reality, reach for ‘Animal Farm’ with your ‘1984’

January 25, 2017Media

In “Animal Farm,” George Orwell traces the slippery slope from democracy to totalitarianism. It looks a lot like the US today.

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