One of the most important thing to take away from this is the media's influence in all of this.
Man is a social animal and he has a need to feel accepted. It is because of this innate need that he will begin to agree with the media rhetoric that gets aired day in and day out.

I don't want to bring politics into this but during Trump's time, the media demonized Trump day in day out, from morning to night. As this was in the media most of the time, it started to feel like it was the social norm and people started demonizing Trump to feel accepted. The US media does the same thing with Russia, China and anyone else who can negatively impact their cushy profitable system.

It's not easy to step away from the media hypnosis but one has to follow the money when it comes to the information spread by the media.