Trump's most obvious lies (like pretending he never led chants of "lock her up) are perhaps the most disturbing.
Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself.
"and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the #BigLie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
...Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt & waver & will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapter 10, "The Big Lie"
More on that here today:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/donald-trump-hitler-similarities
Robert Reich
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