Totalitarian subjects resist ideological conversion even through rousing speech. [contrarian]
In Chaplin's film, when the dictator's soldiers hear the Jewish barber's rousing speech, they immediately snap out of their fascist spell and cheer for "reason" and "democracy." In the Mirror World, something altogether different is underway.
XREF: Connects to Chaplin's The Great Dictator and contrasts with its hopeful fiction about audiences snapping out of fascist thrall.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 442