The post-9/11 Iraq war runup era was completely fucked up in a way which will be hard to explain to anyone who didn't live through it, but at least there was a degree of justification for insanity. Not how the insanity played out, but that people were insane. But in the 90s people were driven insane by a blowjob. Unless you can subject people to thousands of hours of cable news, showing both the bobbleheads and the politicians, there really is no way to communicate what
happened in that era.