Do you think it has anything to do with a particular political faction spending the past decade or two rabble-rousing Americans to feel incredibly passionately

Do you think it has anything to do with a particular political faction spending the past decade or two rabble-rousing Americans to feel incredibly passionately about all sorts of internal goings on in China[1], as a distraction from poor domestic governance? [1] Most of which have nothing to do with them, of course.