How targeted propaganda works. Gavin de Becker, bestselling author of "The Gift of Fear," just made this insightful comment on the @nypost controversy. It’s worth sharing: "Targeted propaganda attacks work because they grab us emotionally. I am Jewish too, bar mitzvahed, grandfather escaped from Poland, etc. So the whole topic is radioactive — and from that point of view, the NY Post article is masterful: it grabs us, gets us emotionally invested, and sets people searching for adjacent material by bad people to link to the topic RFK, Jr raised.”