And please, please, for the love of god, do not come into my replies with your personal diatribe about who is to blame for that fault line existing in the first place. Not useful.
Just leave that blame aside for 2 seconds — there are plenty of other moments for that — and notice the strategy. The fash don’t care where the fault line came from; they just use it once it’s there.
That’s the specific lesson of my post.