If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
a couple of quotes that are straight out of the trump playbook. Both attributable to another very nasty individual.
