The NYT literally compares Trump's twitter account to the radios produced by the Nazi party, in order to bypass the media gatekeepers. Some of the most blatant agitprop I've ever seen from the Times. Literally compares Trump's twitter account to the radios produced by the Nazi party, in order to bypass the media gatekeepers. This is outrageous. All that, plus three crucial factors: new forms of mass communication, the rhetoric of dehumanization and the politics of absolute good versus absolute evil. The (relatively) new technology of the 1930s was the radio. “It is the miracle of radio that it welds 60,000,000 Germans into a single crowd, to be played upon by a single voice,” The Times reported in 1936. This was by design. Among Goebbels’s first efforts after the Nazis came to power was to produce and distribute a cheap radio — the Volksempfänger, or people’s receiver — that could bring the Führer’s voice and message into every home. The radio made possible an unmediated, seemingly personal relationship between leader and subject. It cut out the information brokers — reporters, editors, spokesmen, pundits and so on — on whom previous generations of leaders had been forced to rely. It turned a nation into an audience and politics into a theater where emotion mattered much more than sense. In “The Nightmare Years,” the CBS correspondent William Shirer recalled being struck by the complete disconnect between the insanity of Hitler’s language and the spellbinding quality of his delivery. Radio then, like Twitter today, was the technology of the id; a channel that could concentrate political fury at a time when there was plenty to go around. Yes, because how dare Trump speak directly to the people, and bypass the forked-tongue liars entrenched in the media. https://gab.com/NeonRevolt/posts/102712790375332421