You seriously have to wonder if Trump's fans are not Russian propagandists? Trump was a failure, a spoiled rich boy and a real dummy, his only accomps were division and the rich got richer. Today watching Newsmax or OAN reminds me so much of RT. Oddly even RT seems more balanced so long as the story stays far from critical of Russia's leaders.
For the reader Peter Pomerantsev's 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible'. It is a world hard to comprehend in many ways, but a world we see today even in America with the republicans and many of the wealthy. Online too.
Peter Pomerantsev's 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible' Or 'This is not Propaganda'
Also closer to home check out Timothy Snyder.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and Ame...
www.timothysnyder.org
"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'