By mainstream media I mean media that is popular - people are reading it. Thoughts described there are so extreme there must be acceptance for such rhetoric.
Of course it's accepted by big parts of the population.
Propaganda actually works, that's why dictatorships keep using that playbook.
The point is that it's pointless to try to quantify how many fell victim to propaganda. There is no meaningful way to assess it, since all metrics you'll try to use are under control of a totalitarian state that controls every single statistic.
