This was very interesting. Penn professor on the rise of the Nazis. It’s about an hour, and he’s old and repeats himself a bit, but the parallels are amazing.
http://www.radnorhistory.org/av/vide...eich/index.php
The truth doesn’t matter. Never acknowledge a lie. Double down.
They went through the phone books and grouped names by occupation and sent mass mailing tailored-promise something to 1 group and disparage another while the guy down he street would receive the opposite.
Rallies with entertainment to froth up the crowd before Hitler spoke.
Setting up circumstance (or staging) violence with the communists so that the Nazis were seen as protectors.
Vilify and obstruct government so that it became paralyzed.