I'm currently reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat's STRONGMEN, which studies the techniques of 20th and 21st century "leaders", including Trump. I wouldn't have put Trump in the same league with, e.g., Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet -- but the similarities and parallels are striking, and use of media is a big one: propaganda becomes reality for people relentlessly exposed to it. I don't know personally any hardcore Fox addicts, but I do know some hardcore anti-vaxxers and it's impossible to get through to them either.
Or so stuck with Fox News they have no clue what is going on for real. I have a friend who is this way, which is very frustrating.
I'm currently reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat's STRONGMEN, which studies the techniques of 20th and 21st century "leaders", including Trump. I wouldn't have put Trump in the same league with, e.g., Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet -- but the similarities and parallels are striking, and use of media is a big one: propaganda becomes reality for people relentlessly exposed to it. I don't know personally any hardcore Fox addicts, but I do know some hardcore anti-vaxxers and it's impossible to get through to them either.