Trump is a Psychopath

[LT Barclay]

57. I think he was lumping what is typically classed as "propaganda" with more intense brainwashing, but fundamentally both

erode the foundation of truth, and when people allow someone else to be their sole source of truth, it accompishes the same thing. Aldous Huxley states this in "Brave New World Revisited". Sadly the techniques he describes are widely used by churches. I don't believe this affects the value of the source material because if the manipulated would look there, they wouldn't be so easily controlled.
He desribes a process of describing a threat (others, sinners, hell), and the speaker (not God) is the only one who offers them safety or a way out.
To me this describes how the Republican party has operated since WW2 and as someone said, it has been a coordinated effort from within and without the government.