When the Republicans started hauling out Hitler’s Big Lie playbook as a campaign strategy in 1944, FDR swung into action.
Thom Hartman of the the Independent Media Institutes quotes at Alternet the words of a Democrat who fought back–and boy, do we need more of them today.
“The opposition, in this year, has already imported into this campaign a very interesting thing, because it’s foreign. They’ve imported the propaganda technique invented by the dictators abroad. Remember a number of years ago there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler’s book and was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan.
“According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood. Always a big one. For its very fantastic nature would make it more credible. If only you keep repeating it over, and over, and over again.”