I think these things take years and years. All of the bad stuff we're seeing online is happening in small pockets of a massive country and most people don't care until it's on their doorstep. When we learn about wars or coups or I surections etc it's usually decades of struggles condensed.
Like you say, it's what populists do. Pressure the people with actual power through the media.
They need the government to fund it.
I think these things take years and years. All of the bad stuff we're seeing online is happening in small pockets of a massive country and most people don't care until it's on their doorstep. When we learn about wars or coups or I surections etc it's usually decades of struggles condensed.
He does a lot of things that can't be done and says a lot more than that. I don't think his reality is the same as the rest of ours.