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He's been following the Nazi playbook for years now. One of their top plays there was discrediting the media, the Lügenpresse. Doesn't help that half of the news outlets bent down to kiss his feet and Elon bought up and intentionally tanked one of the biggest social media outlets in the world. The rest are apparently all liars who are out to get him.
Next is make your average working class scared. You do this by giving them something to be scared of, then make them mad at it, then offer a solution to the problem people didn't even know they had. Just takes a quick read on the US Holocaust Museum before it all starts sounding super familiar.
Oh no, I get that. I think he's echoing that stuff intentionally but more to make us cry fascist etc. He loves our reaction to the dictator but only on day one schtick, his side sees it as a joke, we take it deadly serious and I worry median voters think "he was already president, we still have a democracy, these guys are over-reacting."
We can be simultaneously right AND lose the persuasion game. I'd rather win the persuasion game.m as that matters more than being right.
I think about Jan 6, with horrifies Democratic leaning folks but to a large swathe of the public, it doesn't seem to register as a concern compared to inflation etc.