1. Lots of people are reading the literature of totalitarianism (Arendt, Orwell) but should also be reading the literature of post-modernism
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Society of the Spectacle? Repressive desublimation?
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4. Trump, a malevolent Chancy Gardner, resonates as authentic to Fox audience because he really does watch network & believes what it says
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5. The populist "doesn't give the people what they want, he wants what they want." (Chesterton). Trump watches TV his supporters watch.
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I would add that fact dissemination and resistance can be instantly communicated, impossible just 15 years ago. Paradigm shift.
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Historical examples of authoritarianism depended on fact suppression (or fact confusion) that was hard to overcome.
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