This is a regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right.
On the one hand, this is an immensely dangerous situation: A government spurred on by the most deranged far-right online corners.
But on the other, because they are perceiving the world almost exclusively through the prism of a hermetically sealed rightwing information environment, they are vastly overestimating how much support they have for their cruel spectacle.
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