It's chilling how quickly misinformation merchants, hostile foreign agents, and other bad actors coalesced around using popular mainstream social media as the world's most effective megaphone.
A scant few years ago, they lacked a direct communications channel by which they could radicalize the average American.
How can you explain the radical leftists of the 1960's then? Somehow the Russians (Soviets) must have (I assume you believe it was caused by them) had a communications channel by which they could radicalize all those college students.
What you typed bears little resemblance to anything I claimed.
Yes, I lumped hostile foreign countries in with other sorts of hostile actors. However, I did not claim that they were the only kinds of hostile actors. Nor did I even claim that they were the worst.
Summarizing my views as "the Russians cause everything" is... just wow.
A scant few years ago, they lacked a direct communications channel by which they could radicalize the average American.