Eventually it dovetails with the dynamics of: "The way you have to pretend to believe/avoid my obvious lies is a demonstration of my power and an implicit threat to others."

Then: "By forcing you to publicly sacrifice your integrity, I've poisoned any future resistance with mutual doubt."

> He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can’t help it. You catch it off him.

-- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Yes, it is known as Hypernormalization.

My understand of Hyper Normalisation is that it is the construction of a fake reality that everyone agrees on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

Which is different to flooding the channels with contradictory information, so that no-one knows what to believe.

The film 'Hyper Normalisation', by Adam Curtis, is well worth watching, BTW.

Well, that fits as well for the CG crowd.

CG?

Calin Georgescu, the candidate that hasrussian support. Kind of how US abbreviates Donald Trump as DJT.

>that everyone agrees on

(or, at least, pretends to)

Flooding the channels is step one. Construction of the fake reality follows. I also recommend that documentary, it details "how we got here".