They are more like authoritarian statists.

Appeal to the masses: "[Propaganda] must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses", rather than the "scientifically trained intelligentsia."
Target the emotions: "[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect."
Keep your message simple: "It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided…The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous."
Make no half statements: "…emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly."
Repeat your message constantly: "[Propagandist technique] must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Tea Baggers
Nutjobs
Reich Wingers
Racists
Misogynists
They want children and old people to starve

These are the tools of the elitist, snobbish, authoritarian statists.