emotionally charged justifications for centralising power and suppressing civil society.
The key here is that this propaganda is very emotionally charged and uses language like "the end of times", "threatens civilization", "evil", "demonic", etc because these are concepts that evoke major emotional responses and create fear. If they said "women will have equal treatment and respect", that wouldn't be as scary as saying that feminism has contributed to the downfall of society and caused every problem in the world, and millions of babies are being murdered every year. Trump even had a speech maybe two years ago where he made a derogatory comment about trans people, the audience erupted in applause and he made a remark like "all I have to do is say transgender and everyone goes crazy". People in power know they can emotionally manipulate people by using their fears against them. And we live in a patriarchal society that cultivates fear of the "others" of society (marginalized people). So when you put those together, it is a pretty detrimental combination.