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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5170331" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/11/trumps-big-lie-and-hitlers-is-this-how-americas-slide-into-totalitarianism-begins/" target="_blank"> Hitler rose to power through a Big Lie</a> that soothed Germans&#039; wounded egos and targeted already-popular scapegoats: Jews and socialists, who according to the Nazi narrative had betrayed Germany through backroom dealings after the empire had won on the battlefield. All of the &quot;evidence&quot; that Hitler marshaled to support this claim was false (fact-checkers who pointed this out were described as Jews promoting a &quot;big lie&quot;), and for that reason only die-hard Nazis believed the Big Lie — at first. After Hitler gained power, however, he was able to effectively spread both that fabrication and other lies, convincing more and more people that a conspiracy of Jews and leftists were enemies of Europe&#039;s supposedly superior races. Dissent was squashed, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/12/05/trump-the-fascist-artist-how-the-maga-crowd-is-motivated-by-aesthetics-not-ideas/" target="_blank">fascism prevailed</a> and even so-called moderates began to think that there must be at least some truth in the accusations. After all, they were being repeated everywhere.&quot;&nbsp;Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who is noted as an expert on narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic abuse</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5170331, member: 54375"] "[URL='https://www.salon.com/2021/04/11/trumps-big-lie-and-hitlers-is-this-how-americas-slide-into-totalitarianism-begins/'] Hitler rose to power through a Big Lie[/URL] that soothed Germans' wounded egos and targeted already-popular scapegoats: Jews and socialists, who according to the Nazi narrative had betrayed Germany through backroom dealings after the empire had won on the battlefield. All of the "evidence" that Hitler marshaled to support this claim was false (fact-checkers who pointed this out were described as Jews promoting a "big lie"), and for that reason only die-hard Nazis believed the Big Lie — at first. After Hitler gained power, however, he was able to effectively spread both that fabrication and other lies, convincing more and more people that a conspiracy of Jews and leftists were enemies of Europe's supposedly superior races. Dissent was squashed, [URL='https://www.salon.com/2020/12/05/trump-the-fascist-artist-how-the-maga-crowd-is-motivated-by-aesthetics-not-ideas/']fascism prevailed[/URL] and even so-called moderates began to think that there must be at least some truth in the accusations. After all, they were being repeated everywhere." Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who is noted as an expert on narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic abuse [/QUOTE]

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