And why wouldnt he? After all, he wont be running for election again; either he doesnt manage to cancel the normal electoral process and isnt eligible, or does, and therefore doesnt actually need to run the risk of losing by making it fair enough to potentially lose. The only reason for him to care about popularity is ego, so if just insisting to himself and others that his decisions are popular is enough to convince himself of it, he will.
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Often attributed to Goebbels, but in truth it’s from a profile of Hitler. https://history.stackexchange.com/a/49148
And why wouldnt he? After all, he wont be running for election again; either he doesnt manage to cancel the normal electoral process and isnt eligible, or does, and therefore doesnt actually need to run the risk of losing by making it fair enough to potentially lose. The only reason for him to care about popularity is ego, so if just insisting to himself and others that his decisions are popular is enough to convince himself of it, he will.
Somehow he seems to have gotten all too many people to believe things that fly in the face of reality, just by repeating it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Often attributed to Goebbels, but in truth it’s from a profile of Hitler. https://history.stackexchange.com/a/49148
also using russia firehose of falsehood.
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