Yup. All of Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer' (1951) is applicable to Trump, but this bit is particularly salient.
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this is called 'playing to one's priors' -- the oldest, most effective marketing/propaganda trick in the book. cc
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Point is you can't create those priors. You can only wait for them, and they might never arrive, leaving your bid for power stillborn.
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Buddy, that's obvious. But who said that Masters of Propaganda wait? They never wait on them--they bend/exploit existing ones. (cont'd)
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Hoffer Has discusses this. At the scale of nations, there's not much you can do to provoke the right conditions. Maybe city/Corp scale
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any prior can be exploited multiple ways -- different stories & different outcomes possible for same prior. (cont'd)
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