the tactics that the author discusses is “The Plain-Folks Appeal” where propagandist make the public thing that they have a connection to them, either by telling them that they are just like them or telling their life stories which may or may not be true. In an essay from the course text, “Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled” the author describes how it works, “The plain-folks appeal is at work when candidates go around shaking hands with factory workers, kissing babies in supermarkets, and sampling pasta with Italians, fried chicken with Southerners, bagels and blintzes with Jews” (Cross). This is exactly what Trump did, during the many rallies he held he made it clear that he was not a politician, just a business man who wanted to fix the
