Recently, a lot of new information has come out about the Russiagate scandal. Much of this material has been covered in great depth by some of my colleagues at RedState. I encourage you to read all of it.
But it’s important to focus on the big picture of the scandal as well. The Russiagate scandal was nothing more than an example of the Big Lie Strategy in action.
Prior to 2016, it was well-known that one of the two major political parties had a fondness for Russia (and before it, the Soviet Union). That party was the Democrat Party. In the 70’s, President Jimmy Carter had once chided Americans for their “inordinate fear of communism.” In the 80’s, Senator Ted Kennedy had asked the Soviet dictator for his electoral help against President Ronald Reagan. In 2012, President Barack Obama had once said, in jest, in a debate, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back," to humiliate and push back against the statement by his opponent Mitt Romney that Russia is "our number one geopolitical foe." And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had pushed the (mistranslated) “reset button” with the Russians and facilitated a deal that allowed Russia to purchase about 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity.
But, in 2016, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama turned the truth on its head and decided to project the philo-Russian beliefs of the Democrats onto the Republican Donald Trump and claim that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had colluded with Trump to elect Trump to the presidency. This was nothing more than “a false political hit job orchestrated from the top of the Barack Obama administration,” which relied on units of the federal government and their allies in the private sector to spread it and convince large numbers of people in the U.S. and throughout the world.
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And it totally worked. Because, you see, the Democrats utilized the tried-and-true Big Lie Strategy.
The definition of the Big Lie Strategy, often attributed to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, is:
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
In his (definite) language, Goebbels projected his strategy onto the British and argued in favor of keeping up the lies, “even at the risk of looking ridiculous.” Dictator Adolf Hitler doubled down on this as he believed that the strategy required the following primary rules:
…never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
While using this Big Lie Strategy, the Democrats/MSM also relied on a well-known truism and (possible) Mark Twain quote: “A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.”
So, for almost a decade, the Democrats in and out of government have pushed this propaganda that Vladimir Putin and Russia were supporters of Donald Trump and conspired with him to get him elected. In that effort, they have churned out more and more supporting lies to flesh out this dishonest grand conspiracy. And the few times they were embarrassed by truthful disclosures – as the truth finally put on its “shoes” when the Mueller report showed no evidence of collusion – they quickly memory-holed this unfortunate turn of events and rushed on to the next lie to support their Big Lie Strategy.
Only now is the full truth finally catching up to a majority of the U.S. population. But for at least 45 percent of them, it never will. And the lies will largely be what is recorded in the history books (by the many left-leaning professors).
You can be sure that the Democrats count all of this as a great success, and are preparing their next big lie, even as I write about this one.
Editor's Note: The Trump administration is exposing Barack Obama and his administration's Russian Collusion Hoax.
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