Goodreads: Gaslighting America, Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us; by Amanda B Carpenter.
I got this book thinking it was going to be about people that fall for the Trump con job. And after a couple chapters I thought maybe it was just a review of what happened from the 2016 election to present and I almost put it down.
But then I kept reading.
I know this stuff as do most of you I would guess. But putting it together step by step, in Carpenter's in-depth analysis of Trump's propaganda techniques was still eye-opening. [Sorry, preachy mode] Everyone needs to read this book, even if you already understand his particular propaganda messages. I consider myself well versed in propaganda and marketing but by the time I finished the book I had a different view of the details on how Trump works.
I don't know if he simply does it naturally or if it was some sort of genius scheme by Kellyanne Conway (haven't seen any better propagandist than her on his team), but there is a lot more to the finer points of Trump's con game than I realized. Carpenter explains in great detail step by step how Trump eliminated the GOP candidates one by one starting with JEB! and moving next to Rubio and Cruz.
The lies that Trump seemed to pull out of his ass were well planned. Some of this is more obvious, like starting with "people are saying" through to his talking head minions hitting all the news talk shows. But he repeated the same half dozen steps in the gaslighting over and over.
And now that he's POTUS he's refined the art of getting the public to dismiss anything negative about him. The news cycles past one scandal after another. If the public doesn't wise up, Mueller's report is going to be defanged before it hits the news stands.
This guy is a genius con even if he's ignorant about so many other things. The more his con is exposed the more vaccinated we'll be against it. I hope more people read this book, especially people in the mainstream media pick. They are the most conned of all of us.
I got this book thinking it was going to be about people that fall for the Trump con job. And after a couple chapters I thought maybe it was just a review of what happened from the 2016 election to present and I almost put it down.
But then I kept reading.
I know this stuff as do most of you I would guess. But putting it together step by step, in Carpenter's in-depth analysis of Trump's propaganda techniques was still eye-opening. [Sorry, preachy mode] Everyone needs to read this book, even if you already understand his particular propaganda messages. I consider myself well versed in propaganda and marketing but by the time I finished the book I had a different view of the details on how Trump works.
I don't know if he simply does it naturally or if it was some sort of genius scheme by Kellyanne Conway (haven't seen any better propagandist than her on his team), but there is a lot more to the finer points of Trump's con game than I realized. Carpenter explains in great detail step by step how Trump eliminated the GOP candidates one by one starting with JEB! and moving next to Rubio and Cruz.
The lies that Trump seemed to pull out of his ass were well planned. Some of this is more obvious, like starting with "people are saying" through to his talking head minions hitting all the news talk shows. But he repeated the same half dozen steps in the gaslighting over and over.
And now that he's POTUS he's refined the art of getting the public to dismiss anything negative about him. The news cycles past one scandal after another. If the public doesn't wise up, Mueller's report is going to be defanged before it hits the news stands.
This guy is a genius con even if he's ignorant about so many other things. The more his con is exposed the more vaccinated we'll be against it. I hope more people read this book, especially people in the mainstream media pick. They are the most conned of all of us.
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