Trump waging psychological warfare using 'one of the main tactics of autocrats': pollster

Wayward Republican pollster Sarah Longwell said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump is essentially waging psychological warfare against American voters by overloading their capacity to process outrage.

During an appearance on CNN, Longwell was asked about a recent column by the Financial Times' Edward Luce that argued about a dangerous acceptance and resignation among Americans about Trump's nonstop falsehoods.

"First of all, I think that's 100 percent right," Longwell began. "The psychology of people are just not built to take this."

She then made the point that, whether he knows it or not, Trump is employing tactics that have been used throughout history by leaders of authoritarian governments.

"One of the main tactics of autocrats and authoritarians is to exhaust people, right?" she said. "That's what they want you to be: They want you to be too exhausted to fight back. They want you to be too exhausted to parse through all the noise to figure out what's going on."

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She then said that Trump's chaotic behavior gives President Joe Biden a key opportunity to make a focused case against the former president, who was impeached on two separate occasions and who faces criminal indictments in four separate jurisdictions.

"This is the time for Joe Biden and his campaign to roll out a thousand surrogates to go on offense against Donald Trump and say, 'You do not want this guy,'" she said. "You don't have to talk about each individual case. You've to say, 'This guy's running for president to stay out of jail, he's got [$500 million] plus in legal fees that he's going to raise from you.' Those are the kinds of things you do to sort of paint an overall picture."

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