Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.
Fascists despised the small truths of daily exisistence, loved slogans that resonated like a new religion, and preferred creative myths to history or journalism.
Post-truth is pre-fascism.

embrace of contradiction. For example, liberating the wealthy from taxes will not increase national debt. Accepting untruth of this radical kind requires a blatant abandonment of reason.
The final mode is misplaced faith. Self-deifying claims such as “I alone can solve it,” for example. Once truth

world as it is begins the creation of a fictional counterworld.
The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Lemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon “endless repetion,” designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable.
The next mode is magical thinking, or the open

of any political system that depends upon individualism. As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth died in four modes.
The first mode is open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. Demeaning the

The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual-and thus the collapse