The trick governments don’t want you to know.

Both can be true?

At least I’d argue US cultural exports and social media is more dominant than, say, Germany’s.

But the US has had the right attacking democracy for longer than people are probably assuming too. I’m sure there is a better example than Newton Gingrich (anything goes, lying is fine, undermining the house) be he was 1995 and the Tea Party kind of grew from there and helped give the political space for Trumpism. McCarthyism is probably not too reasonable since there was a period in the middle but thats the mid-1950s and admittedly if you’re going back that far then its only a decade after fascism was in Europe