I can't really call this fantasy, because it isn't. Except for the last part (which apparently DID happen).
An obscure fanatic from a small town makes wild assertions and threatens to burn books.
His rhetoric is taken up by the news media and given national and international coverage.
He is given lavish attention by important government officials and agencies, thereby raising him from obscurity to notoriety overnight.
Attention is so acute that incipient hysteria and paranoia spill over and result in the chief executive of a nation of millions of people making a personal appeal to this individual.
A member of a major news organization wonders whether or not the media handling of the whole affair "-might have been reckless."
D'ya think?
Bibliography: See Adolf Hitler, rise of National Socialism, Beer Cellar Putsch, Hitler treason trial, etc., etc. You may end with the burning of the Reichstag if you wish....
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