This, demon possession, is a better approach, even, than treating your political opponents as, say, vermin, as Hitler did re the Jews, and also re the German Communists with whom he had identified them.
This wild strategy of course has had its limits...
To see how Christian demonization, as a political strategy, does not work, in modern times, re Jews, or Communists, for that matter, one has to look at its origins, in something like Pagels' The Origin Of Satan.
It has tended to be associated mainly with Christian on Christian polemics since say 150 AD.
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