The Trump administration is hellbent on erasing the reality of people’s lives

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Donald Trump’s authoritarian leanings are on full display nearly every day in his grandiose, paranoid tweets. The president’s anti-democratic impulses are one thing to behold — they often feel like an anomalous attack on America’s key norms and institutions. 

But make no mistake: A similar strain of autocratic thinking has popped up across the Trump administration. Specifically, some of the president’s political appointees and their staffs have a habit of disappearing information they don’t like, without explanation. 

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