Ever since the Catholic Church gave the world propaganda in its Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) in the year 1622, propaganda has been with us. The triumph of populist propaganda has been shown in the United States with the election of Donald Trump. As in the United States, right-wing propaganda also works its magic in various European countries like Hungary and Poland. In Germany, the single most propagandistic party is called the AfD or Alternative for Germany. Some say ‘A F*** Disgrace’. According to public polling in February 2020, the AfD (at 14%) had overtaken Germany’s centre-left social-democratic party, the SPD, by one point (at 16%). In the former East Germany, the AfD has already overtaken the centre-right CDU. Like many other countries, Germany is in danger of ‘pop-populism turning democracy into a popcorn autocracy’ (p. 9) writes Johannes Hillje in his new book Propaganda 4.0. Essentially, propaganda 4.0 is different from

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宣传 4.0：Wie Rechte Populisten Politik Machen [宣传 4.0：右翼民粹主义如何塑造政治]

自从天主教会于 1622 年在其传播信仰会（Congregatio de Propaganda Fide）中向世界进行宣传以来，宣传一直伴随着我们。在美国展示了民粹主义宣传的胜利，选举唐纳德特朗普。与美国一样，右翼宣传也在匈牙利和波兰等各个欧洲国家发挥了作用。在德国，宣传力度最大的政党被称为 AfD 或德国替代党。有人说“AF *** 耻辱”。根据 2020 年 2 月的民意调查，AfD（14%）超过德国中左翼社会民主党 SPD 一个百分点（16%）。在前东德，AfD 已经超过了中右翼的基民盟。像许多其他国家一样，Johannes Hillje 在他的新书 Propaganda 4.0 中写道，德国正面临“流行民粹主义将民主变成爆米花专制”（第 9 页）的危险。本质上，宣传 4.0 不同于