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 …
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.
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.