They need the government to fund it.

I think these things take years and years. All of the bad stuff we're seeing online is happening in small pockets of a massive country and most people don't care until it's on their doorstep. When we learn about wars or coups or I surections etc it's usually decades of struggles condensed.

He does a lot of things that can't be done and says a lot more than that. I don't think his reality is the same as the rest of ours.

Like you say, it's what populists do. Pressure the people with actual power through the media.