‘A “big lie” is a political propaganda technique made famous by Germany’s national socialist German workers’ party... For more than two years, socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies — CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post and countless others — have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam and fraud in American history.’ Rep. Mo Brooks
That’s Alabama’s Republican congressman Mo Brooks lashing out at the left and the mainstream media for their role in fanning the flames of the collusion charges that have been dogging President Trump since he took office.
Brooks took a page from Adolf Hitler’s opus, “Mein Kampf,” to accuse the political left of propagating the “big lie,” an expression coined by the Führer to describe how Jews used their “unqualified capacity” for lying to place blame on a decorated German commander for the country’s World War I losses.
Specifically, Brooks quoted the 10th chapter of the book, which was banned in Germany until 2015: "In the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily,” he said.
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The Washington Post pointed out Brooks ultimately inverted his analogy, making Democrats the equivalent of German and Austrian Jews.
“He set out to compare the other side to fascists, but he was the one employing a fascist smear — one that, ironically, came to define Nazi propaganda,” the Post’s Isaac Stanley-Becker explained.
