There are few things more insane about the Trump administration than the idea he has that .@FoxNews people should hold actual government positions. #HeatherNauert (thread, 1/11)
Trump hasn't just drunk the Kool-Aid when it comes to the party's own propaganda, he's appointed the Kool-Aid to the ruling council. (2/11) 
(No, it wasn't Kool-Aid at Jonestown, but "he drank the Flavor Aid" doesn't have the same impact. The message is more powerful than the reality.) (2.5/11)
The #HeatherNauert appointment is such a fundamental error in how you're supposed to run an #authoritarian regime that it's actually very revealing. (3/11)
For Trump & his generation of Republicans, it isn't about policy (even the horrible racist policy). It's about the lies & propaganda, the fantasy worldview of evil Democrats & constant persecution--living in the stance of being for the "good guys" & not the "bad guys." (4/11)
Yes, the #FoxNews propaganda is horribly racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, all the phobics; but the point is that if you want to trick people into letting you run the world, you USE propaganda as a tool. You don't start worshipping your hammer. (5/11)
What began as a way to use a certain message to regain power has now become the power itself, has become the goal. It's more important to venerate Fox than it is to enact their policies. (Even if all they want is continued GOP power, that's STILL 2ndary to Fox itself.) (6/11)
It used to be you got on TV to become the President, but @realDonaldTrump became President so he could be on TV. (Well, be on TV MORE, because as a narcissist, having his own reality show and being a birther eventually wasn't enough for him.) (7/11)
Appointing #FoxNews people to government positions is like if in Orwell's 1984, Winston and the rest of the Ministry of Truth were running the Party, and doing it mostly because they liked cutting things out of newspapers. (8/11)
After 30 years of Republican propaganda, the party is no longer distinct from the viewership. The #GOP are victims of autohypnosis. (9/11)
Basically, this. (10/11)
Where did Republicans go wrong here? They forgot lesson 2. (11/11) (/thread)
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