Two - Disrupt Rationale/Terrorise Language

Discusses the way that populist leaders seek to rewrite history to suit their narrative, for example Hugo Chávez being described by the Venezuelan ambassador to Turkey as having started the revolution with a few friends under a fig tree, ignoring the pre-existence of grass roots movements. In 2014 President Erdogan claimed that Muslim scholars had reached America in 1178, and that Columbus' memoirs mention a mosque on a hill on the coast of Cuba. Political discourse being simplified, for example focus on Jeremy Corbyn making his own jam, rather than on policies helps the populists, for example Ronald Reagan's 1980 slogan "Let's make America great again" Also describes the difficulties mainstream journalism has dealing with populist leaders.