@realchrisrufo "He’s a propagandist whose talents call to mind Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations, who in the late 1920s famously sold cigarettes to women by associating smoking with freedom." Super-deluxe-grade based.

@SlobodanIsFree Sure, if you want to be 'scholarly' about origins. However, when Edward Bernays is promoting 'public relations' as a legitimate field, he very well knew that he had to overcome the irritability/suggestibility divide.

The expression "torch of freedom", which is as concrete as it is symbolic, was formulated by the (American) father of political propaganda and public relations, Edward Bernays. Quite a guy, that one.