Strategy-Rove:
You just accuse them of what YOU are doing to distract them. For some reason they don’t notice what YOU are doing, and shut up about you, and shake their heads, flummoxed.
If you add to that a process of normalizing authoritarianism and Orwellian distortion of the meaning of words, you have a plan for return of the Authoritarians to power.
Rachael's visitor, Asst. Professor Harris-Lacewell, said they were creating so much outlandishness all the time that any thing they accuse you of seems plausible. Also that the Iraq war sounded like wild and lying talk and then it really happened.
The chatter normalizes Authoritarianism by pretending Obama is practicing it.
It works by destroying the meaning of the language and history of authoritarianism makes it easier to smear the present and prepare for intimidation in the future...
By accusing Obama of:
"dithering"
"excluding Republicans"
"being a Hitler/Stalin/Czar"
"cheating on the election"
"making an enemies list"
"spying on Political enemies"
"excluding Republicans from any decisions"
"accusing him of working too hard" (so we don’t notice the hamstrung nominees etc)
"making death decisions about rich elderly"
"having advisors with too much power"
when authoritarians take over the government, they can say "Obama did those same things and you voted for him in numbers, so if we do those things, obviously you approve..."