This article is 6 years old, but just shows that Trump’s strategy has remained exactly the same. He plays off our media’s weakness to want to report on a spectical, so he gives them exactly what they want in order to dominate headlines.
Hitler, Childers writes, became not just a political leader but “a national celebrity, easily the most recognizable — and controversial — figure of German political life. Even his enemies — and they were legion — were obsessed with him. His habits, his tastes, his background, his personal life were the topics of endless speculation, gossip, and analysis.”
I was blown away by so many things that reminded me of Convicted Felon Treason Trump and today’s Party.
He rose to power at the head of a pop-up fascist insurrection, staging a coup inside an existing political party that had become fatally weakened by its cynicism and lack of ideological clarity
In the torrent of printed matter that rained down on the country, special leaflets were addressed to every conceivable social and demographic group – shopkeepers, civil servants, farmers, workers, Catholics, Protestants, the old, the young, women. The content of these appeals was based on an analysis by the party’s market research.
The Nazis did so to construct their targeted appeals to different kinds of voters, using a message that was invariably “simple, direct, and shorn of any nuance, couched in a few snappy catch-phrases, a handful of images and easily recognized code words.”
the successive Nazi campaigns of 1932 were largely about branding, merchandising and showmanship, and hardly at all about policy or ideology. Indeed, while the party’s anti-Semitic attitudes were well known, hostility to Jews did not play a major role in the 1932 campaigns – arguably a lesser than anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim sentiment played in Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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