Posted on 10/24/2024 7:55:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling The Trump-Hitler story is a psyop.
I mean that literally, not figuratively. It’s a military-grade, multi-stage psychological operation, engineered to re-energize demoralized Harris supporters and—through stigmatization—reduce turnout among Trump supporters.
Here’s how it works:
STEP ONE: PAYLOAD
The most important component of any weapons system is the payload—that is, the material that actually detonates and causes explosive damage. In a psyop, the payload is a generally a narrative; in the case of this psyop, the narrative is that Trump is a fascist, a Hitler-sympathizer, and an outright Nazi.
If your initial reaction here is to laugh at how trite and cliched this is, you’re not wrong; you would think, after eight years of trying to will this fake narrative into existence ex nihilo (“don’t you folks get that he’s literally Hitler?!”), the Democrats and their media allies would eventually have moved on. But there are two reasons why they’ve exhumed this beaten and dead horse, and why they’ve done so just 14 days before the election:
Reason 1: They’re desperate. Kamala is behind in nearly every national poll, and, in particular, she has forfeited a meaningful level of support among Latinos, black men, and Arab-Americans. With white Americans breaking for Trump more heavily than ever before, the Harris campaign can’t afford even the slightest of shifts in voting patterns among swing-state minority demographics.
Reason 2: Unfortunately, the fictitious Nazi claim, on the margins, is effective. Most Americans, burned out on nearly a decade of continuous media hoaxes (from “fine people on both sides” to injecting bleach to the origins of Covid to Hunter Biden’s laptop), will see through it and immediately disregard it. Remember, though, that just a handful of swing states will decide this election; even more specifically, members of the aforementioned minority groups will likely be the fulcrum within those states. If, by calling Trump a fascist, the Harris campaign and the media can motivate even a small number of these people to get off the fence and support Harris, and if they can also demoralize a small number of would-be Trump voters in the same states to stay home on Election Day, it could make all the difference.
STEP TWO: THE LAUNCH VEHICLE
A weapon is no good if it can’t be delivered to its intended target. In the case of this operation, the first stage of the launch vehicle was The New York Times and The Atlantic, which published their stories within hours of each other.
Ask yourself, what are the odds that two prominent news outlets, both of which are highly friendly to the Democratic establishment but which are (notionally) independent from one another, would publish two separate articles with the same narrative, within hours of each other on a date exactly two weeks before the election?
Exactly.
STEP THREE: CHAIN REACTION
The New York Times and The Atlantic offer credibility for the narrative’s nucleus, but what they can’t offer is widespread distribution. Americans get their news from a range of sources that is wider than ever, and—as much as it might offend those who took out $200k in student loans to attend Columbia J-school—most of them don’t turn to the so-called paper of record or to a once-great literary magazine intellectually bankrupted by the widow of the guy who invented the iPhone.
Fortunately for the orchestrators of our psyop, though, if there’s one thing the media hates even more than Donald Trump, it’s missing out on all the clicks and impressions from a hot story. Within hours of the two original articles going live (within minutes, in some cases), virtually every other mainstream publication released a derivative article that summarized the salacious claims in the source articles. By the end of the day yesterday, there were hundreds of such releases, from CNN, NBC/MSNBC/CNBC, ABC, CBS, Newsweek, Axial, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, NPR, and just about any other publication one could name.
These derivative articles don’t merely disseminate the narrative’s DNA further; they also serve to reinforce it and provide it (false) legitimacy, creating the unjustified impression that dozens of outlets have looked into this, rather than just two. When Americans open up Facebook and see countless articles from countless different sources all saying the same thing, they become far more susceptible to the narrative, even if they might otherwise be skeptical. The sheer volume of logos and headlines overwhelms the mind’s natural hesitation to question propaganda.
It’s devious, but it works. And the people who engineer missions like this know it.
STEP FOUR: ITERATE AND PERPETUATE
Earlier today, Kamala Harris read a statement decrying Trump’s supposed fascism; as I type these words, she’s regurgitating these claims in her televised townhall. Biden also provided a statement about the articles today. In doing this, they essentially rebooted the news cycle for the narrative, providing it fresh life and keeping it front and center in the media.
If you’re getting a sense that the media focus comes in waves, it’s because it does (and, like everything else here, it’s deliberate and methodical). In the first 24 hours, the focus is on the original claims in the two source articles. In the subsequent 48 hours, once the original story starts to go stale, the media focus pivots to the reaction from prominent opponents of Trump, thereby creating another news cycle to reinforce the narrative. Thereafter, the media will launch yet another wave of news, this one focused on interviewing historians (all of whom will, conveniently, summarize the numerous and convenient parallels between Trump and the fascists of old), swing-state voters (all of whom, conveniently, will claim that Trump’s newly unveiled love of Hitler convinced them to get off the fence and support Kamala), and even so-called Trump supporters that have now decided not to vote for him.
The goal is to keep the narrative in front of the audience for as long as possible, giving it time and space to metastasize further and continue corroding support for Trump.
STEP FIVE: LAUNCH ANOTHER PAYLOAD
We have 13 days until the election. If you think this is the last payload the Harris campaign and the media will launch into the discourse, you have far more faith in their decency than I do.
Expect at least two more of these over the next two weeks, one of which—if I can hazard a guess—will center on fictitious claims of sexual misconduct and the second of which will focus on Trump’s business history.
Just remember: If it looks like a psyop, walks like a psyop, and quacks like a psyop, it’s probably a psyop. Remain vigilant, keep your spirits high, and, most importantly, VOTE.
Too late for them. Our votes are in the can.
They told us Bush was Hitler.
I’m confused ….
All of this does not matter because in the end who you vote for is private. You can shame me for liking donald in public but nobody will know if i vote for him on my ballot. plenty of people can say they will vote for harris but will actually vote for trump.
The trouble with this strategy is they’ve been doing it once a week for the last 8 years. Nobody is listening anymore. Nobody inclined to vote for Trump will change as a result of this.
Chimpy McBushitler.
I believe this is one time that these “October surprise” attacks will not work. Why? The Dems have thrown everything they could think of at DJT and all it has done is increase his popularity. The reason almost crackles in the air. You can sense it, feel it like static electricity. Millions of people are just sick of everything the Dems stand for these days.
Good analysis if people are never exposed to the strategy. Unfortunately for the Dhims, this is like repeating games: if you’re using the same strategy again and again, people will get used to it and don’t find it as a credible threat anymore.
Someone needs to demand that Kamala define fascism. If asked,
I think we all could wait until New Year before we would get
an answer.
Well, I was raised in a Middle class family
Congress has failed to pass our bill, trump killed it
I'm not Joe Biden
Trump is Hitler
Bush was Hitler, but he also was a Confederate worse that Jefferson Davis too. So maybe Bush was a Confederate Hitler and Trump is a New York Hitler. When Vance wins the presidency after Trump, he’ll be a Hillbilly Hitler.
If Trump was Hitler he would still be president, errrrr dictator.
Trump didn’t even arrest a single journalist. Some dictator!
No kidding, at least Obama had his FBI investigate James Rosen.
Zactly
Gee, why wasn’t Trump ‘Hitler’ in his first term? Did he forget?
Kamala is can't talk about anything in an intelligent way. She just makes stuff up and reminds me of a five year old.
Why would they run someone who has never even once won a single delegate for the presidency. She's a dope and is trying to BS her way into the White House. It won't work, she's going down in flames and nothing will stop that.
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