Suppress relations: New weapon in 2016 campaign

The term is new, but as political strategy and tactic it dates back at least to Machiavelli or to the birth of mass communications and public relations.

It cannot be a new invention, because you never know what you will find when you dig up the saga of propagandists like Paul Joseph Goebbels who had their idiosyncratic approaches to the challenge of reputation management and engineering of consent.