Comment by johnnyanmac

The easiest thing to tap into for an uncomfortable populace is fear. Once you do that, the easiest thing to do is to redirect that fear to literally anything or anyone else. Social media is easy mode for fascism to do this the world over.

By the time you type out a subtle conversation and make a short and long term plans, the mobs will already form. The way engagement on social media works just amplifies the extremes and culls the subtlety.