One that Goebbels knew well and used with great calculation. Accusing others of your own crimes can work to mitigate one's own wrongdoing and induces a moral relativism that makes misdeeds ok in the minds of followers. drumpf like Goebbels, is doing it on a grand stage and knows full well why he's doing it.

iluvtennis

(19,875 posts)

7. moral relativism...kinda like the media normalizing Humpty Dumpty Trump.

Reply to Bradshaw3 (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:41 AM

Feb 2018

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)

3. It is a common tactic...

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 09:45 PM

Feb 2018

Trumps constant accusations of others about “fake news” is a prime example. Everything trump says is fake either entirely or just enough fake to make him look like the victim.

Stargleamer

(1,990 posts)

4. Republicans have been doing this for years n/t

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:16 PM

Feb 2018

VOX

(22,976 posts)

5. Hannity (working w/Trump) is really pushing this particular tactic.

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:32 PM

Feb 2018

In their concocted version of “reality,” Hillary colluded with Russia to defeat Trump, and Obama himself is personally running the FBI.

How fucking insane is that? Nightly, at full-throated volume, Hannity and his “rogue’s gallery” of guests (nazi Sebastian Gorka, weirdo teabagger congressmen, tax-scammer Judge Jeanine, or whatever the hell her name is, etc.) all sing in unison about how Mueller’s investigation is the “worst criminal act in American history,”
spouting hyperbole and LIES so epic in scale and so frantically that they break out in a sweat. It’s enough to make any sensible, sane person barf out their souls.