"Having a direct communication channel with the public is key to maintaining personality cults. The propaganda strategies used, like rallies, have stayed remarkably the same, even as information mediums have changed. Mussolini used newsreel, Hitler used radio, https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1337038941065719808

Berlusconi and Libya's Moammer Kadafi used television, India's Narendra Modi uses Instagram (and holograms, as during his 2014 election campaign, to appear simultaneously at many rallies), and Trump uses Twitter, with his misspelled words and grade-school vocabulary playing into

his 'everyman' persona. Over a century, a paradoxical truth holds: The more skilled the leader is at media centric politics, the more his admirers see him as authentic." @ruthbenghiat