“Political philosopher Hannah Arendt went further, saying that the lies of an authoritarian were designed not to persuade people, but to organize them into a mass movement. Followers would ‘believe everything and nothing,’ Arendt wrote, ‘think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.’ ‘The ideal subject’ for such a dictator, Arendt wrote, was not those who were committed to an ideology, but rather ‘people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction…and the distinction between true and false…no longer exist.'”