“His primary rules … never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
I won’t say who this was written about. The personality-type is more important than the person discussed.
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Narcissism is the kindest word I can think of regarding the subject of your poem.
Thanks, it’s not a poem, though. It’s an excerpt from a government document made in 1944.