“It is the trivial, the irrelevant, the sensational, the appeal to obsolete bigotry which naturally give it greatest publicity. In such publicity it becomes a mere vulgar caricature of itself.”

Looks like racist rhetoric is a time-tested tactic of propaganda to rile people up over trivialities and exaggerations.

The Progressive caricature of self is a vulgar theocratic socialism. The private and expanded collective sensationalizes bigotry by anti-reality propagating (mountains out of mole hills) the trivial and the irrelevant.