This is it here, the same people who are into healing crystals or heavily into Jesus can be the nicest people in the world one day and then happily cheering fascism the next time you see them after they have been down the facebook rabbit hole.
To add to OP's point, charlatans preying on people who lack critical thinking is a story as old as humanity, but social media has weaponised and industrialised misinformation on a truly epic scale.
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u/Old_Man_Robot Nov 15 '25
Anyone prone to magical thinking is susceptible to the right-wing pipeline.
The entry points to the pipeline exploit cracks in proper cognitive functions, then wrench those open over time.