Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”
Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.
“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…
I mean, this is specifically about shifting people to that mindset. Just keep being blatant and walking it back in a shitty fashion until the base no longer cares.
It is pretty much the same way that dog whistles and “memes” are used to radicalize people online (and is part of the publicly available neonazi recruiting handbook from I want to say the 80s?). “Death to the Jews. ha ha, South Park is great. Isn’t that a fun joke” eventually just becomes openly talking about how Soros lizards are controlling the world.