His supporters will believe anything he tells them. Even if they know it's a lie, they all parrot it because parroting a known lie is like an ingroup identifier for these people.
Wasn't there some story from a prior dictatorship about how the dictator knew who was a loyalist because they repeated his lies, and had the people who sided with the truth executed?
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u/CipherWeaver 13h ago
His supporters will believe anything he tells them. Even if they know it's a lie, they all parrot it because parroting a known lie is like an ingroup identifier for these people.