trump's Architect Arthur Finkelstein Identifying enemies for success

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Arthur Finkelstein was a GOP strategic planner who wrote the battle plan for trump's election win. He brought the core enablers into the trump sphere to fashion a plan to deceive America. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and others were all Finkelstein protege's. They taught trump, their social-media skills and enabled their followers feed each other in an eternal cycle.

"Populists separate campaigning from governance. Their leaders are selected not for any governing skills but strictly for their ability to drive engagement. That’s why many of them — Beppe Grillo, Boris Johnson, Trump — come from entertainment industries. A quick route to engagement is arousing anger. In Finkelstein’s words, “The guy who says, ‘I have a seven-point plan for fixing the pensions system’” will lose to “the guy who says, ‘Throw them out! Get rid of those people’”. For Finkelstein, more important than choosing one’s own candidate was selecting the right enemy. The ideal enemy is a person or group who can be presented as the embodiment of assorted evils. The populist script says: no matter how placid and safe your country might seem, this enemy intends to destroy your way of life or even kill you."

This is how and why trump gets his followers to pick enemies like George Soros.

"In 2004, Finkelstein joked: “In terms of the Republicans, Hillary Clinton is a wonderful candidate for the presidency.” Working for Orbán in 2013, he chose George Soros as the enemy. (There were obvious echoes of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Party’s enemy in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.) Finkelstein, though Jewish himself, used anti-Semitic tropes against Soros. He wasn’t a racist; he just liked winning games. Populists attract some extremists. The populist candidate never disavows them because they are his strongest supporters and they make him look moderate by comparison. So Trump needed the Charlottesville neo-Nazis"

Buzzfeed went further to cover this story:

The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

The two stories above lay out the ground work as to how trump and other populist politicians use conspiracy stories. Use social media, data gathering, memes and lies. To spin their ideologies to their followers.