Establishment Left floats something in the media. Establishment Right takes the bait and amplifies it with outrage programming. Right useful idiots get angry. “Can you believe... AOC/they want to cancel Dr. Seuss/math is racist/men can get pregnant?!?” Left useful idiots who weren’t even paying attention to the original thing see the right complaining and think, “My enemy is angry. Must defend source of anger.” Left then argues back: “AOC is great, Seuss is a bigot, ban math, trannies 4ever.”
Establishment Left floats something in the media. Establishment Right takes the bait and amplifies it with outrage programming. Right useful idiots get angry. “Can you believe... AOC/they want to cancel Dr. Seuss/math is racist/men can get pregnant?!?” Left useful idiots who weren’t even paying attention to the original thing see the right complaining and think, “My enemy is angry. Must defend source of anger.” Left then argues back: “AOC is great, Seuss is a bigot, ban math, trannies 4ever.”