My mother was a propagandist for the US government in the WW2 and then a War Correspondent in the Pacific and European theaters of war. She was there with the US troops at the opening of one of the concentration camps I have a photograph of her next to an open box car of the emaciated dead that the SS were unable to hide in time. [Long story later in the mean time, Google search "Was George Orwell a propagandist?"]
It does feel like aspects of those pre-war days are returning with the confusion of governments unable to plot a clear course of action because of the turmoil of conflicting voices within their own borders.
My mother was a propagandist for the US government in the WW2 and then a War Correspondent in the Pacific and European theaters of war. She was there with the US troops at the opening of one of the concentration camps I have a photograph of her next to an open box car of the emaciated dead that the SS were unable to hide in time. [Long story later in the mean time, Google search "Was George Orwell a propagandist?"]
It does feel like aspects of those pre-war days are returning with the confusion of governments unable to plot a clear course of action because of the turmoil of conflicting voices within their own borders.