While there may be a magnitude difference (I personally suspect not) we have had click-bait's ancestor just from headlines. Hard times seem to be a more reliab

While there may be a magnitude difference (I personally suspect not) we have had click-bait's ancestor just from headlines. Hard times seem to be a more reliable prediction of extremism really. In the WW1 eras before, during, and after major nations were having literal radical element armed revolution attempts.