There is an amazing irony in the fact 'big money' aka 'dark money' controls the minds of the working class, so called conservatives in America. You see it on web sites, you see it on Fox, OAN, Newsmax, you read it online in numerous sites and posts. The major tool is easy to see as demonizing the other is as old as humanity. Groupthink dominates - its them, they are the reason things are not as they should be. Finger pointing allows reality to never enter, for reality is more difficult and pointing fingers easy. And so it goes....
"Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...nd-the-big-lie
Trump had Hitler's speeches at his bedside according to his first wife.
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." Hitler’s Control of the Masses, Mein Kampf
"Back in Arizona, where the auditors are demanding still more time, Gates believes that the Big Lie has become a “grift” used to motivate Republican voters and donors to support conservative candidates and political groups. “The sad thing is that there are probably millions of people—hardworking, good Americans, maybe retired—who have paid their taxes, always followed the law, and they truly believe this, because of what they’ve been fed by their leaders,” he said. “And what’s so dispiriting is that the people who are pushing it from the top? They know better.”"
"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: the more amiability and espirt de corps among the members of an in-group of policymakers the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and the dehumanizing actions directed at out-groups." Irving L. Janis in 'Sanctions for Evil'