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2013 was just before the start of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation of a part of Ukraine. Things were very different.
Also, it was before massive social media, Trump and the woke thing, so USA resembled a sane place.
Social media was already massive, it was just primarily Facebook and Twitter (Arab Spring heavily involved social media). The US tea party movement had been around for a few years, some people were still very jazzed up about Affordable Care Act, only part of the defense of marriage act had been overturned and lawsuits would continue for a few more years. Conservatives hated Obama and were already talking about taking their country back.
Most everything in the US is just extrapolation plus some pandemic fuel.
