Yes, Nixon, whose name I can even now barely bring myself to utter, was a master of the Big Lie.
HCR's post is a wonderfully clear and concise exposition of how this country's 21st-century fascists are using the Nazis' social and political manipulation techniques. As a tag-on, I'll mention Joseph Goebbels's article "Churchill's Lie Factor…
Yes, Nixon, whose name I can even now barely bring myself to utter, was a master of the Big Lie.
HCR's post is a wonderfully clear and concise exposition of how this country's 21st-century fascists are using the Nazis' social and political manipulation techniques. As a tag-on, I'll mention Joseph Goebbels's article "Churchill's Lie Factory," fairly tedious but notable for how he accuses the English of exactly what the Nazis were doing: "The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." Sound like any presidential and vice-presidential candidates, congresscritters, and supreme court justices you can think of?
The orange criminal doesn't seem to have the intellectual capacity or self discipline to study anything except perhaps his own navel. I'm highly skeptical of the report that he kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table. If he did, it was as a decoration. To take off from a comment by Steve Carlton, the great baseball pitcher of the '60s-'80s, all the fat orange con man knows about books is that they're very hard to read.
But at least a few of today's extremist disciples seem to have studied up. Roger Stone, he of the Nixon portrait tattooed across his back, epitomizes nixonian dishonesty and underhandedness. And Bannon and Stephen Miller appear to have internalized the Nazi theories and techniques.
Yes, Nixon, whose name I can even now barely bring myself to utter, was a master of the Big Lie.
HCR's post is a wonderfully clear and concise exposition of how this country's 21st-century fascists are using the Nazis' social and political manipulation techniques. As a tag-on, I'll mention Joseph Goebbels's article "Churchill's Lie Factory," fairly tedious but notable for how he accuses the English of exactly what the Nazis were doing: "The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." Sound like any presidential and vice-presidential candidates, congresscritters, and supreme court justices you can think of?
(see https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb29.htm)
Trump seems to have studied Hitler and Nixon as political examples, which is hardly reassuring.
The orange criminal doesn't seem to have the intellectual capacity or self discipline to study anything except perhaps his own navel. I'm highly skeptical of the report that he kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table. If he did, it was as a decoration. To take off from a comment by Steve Carlton, the great baseball pitcher of the '60s-'80s, all the fat orange con man knows about books is that they're very hard to read.
But at least a few of today's extremist disciples seem to have studied up. Roger Stone, he of the Nixon portrait tattooed across his back, epitomizes nixonian dishonesty and underhandedness. And Bannon and Stephen Miller appear to have internalized the Nazi theories and techniques.