I disagree, Fascists are willing to seem dumb or clownish. This is aimed at maybe 20% of the electorate. Calling it “weakness” is no substitute for an actual left/liberal show of strength

Liberals and centrists have a punching left problem

you couldn’t believe in propaganda as a Gen Xer in grad school: it was all “resisting readers” and such

try “both sides to claim victory over Columbia faculty”

Guillory monuments/ documents essay generalizes this distinction usefully iirc

yeah, Orwell was interested in language, not media