Rushan Abbas debacle is probably the only time mainstream reddit had a good reaction, IMO certainly because it was so cartoonish and incompetent to a level that(at that time) it was impossible to defend. These days the reaction would be completely different, pretty much blue MAGA would be like "oh yeah so what they're also actualy literaly a fed agent? Don't you know that is required training for understanding how to use and spread Western Values?"