Yes, except that apparently this time around citizens are not buying into that. They are LIVING what Trump was talking about; the economically crippling hyper inflation, the deadly and insane Wide Full Open southern border, and this nation visibly edging closer and closer to WWIII. Oh and they definitely and definitively saw for themselves that Joe Bide was blatantly suffering from dementia . . . with ZERO 'Cheap Fakes' involved.
The thing that leftist political propagandists either forget or never really understood when they studied how the NAZIs and Marxists did it was that in order to be effective the leftist political lies MUST be consistently wrapped around an inner core of obvious truth.
But then again since the average leftist has got trouble embracing truth and facts versus emotions and the expedient of 'the political ends justifies the means' they have an allergic reaction to dealing with actual reality in any form.