For decades I've seen the Left accuse the Right of doing things that the Left was actually doing, but there was no evidence that the right was doing it. It's actually a fairly smart ploy, because it creates misdirection, getting people to look Right, when they should be looking Left. It also gives them a disclaimer, when/if they get caught doing it, because they can claim that we were just doing the same thing as the other guys.
Riling up fear is the province of the Left. They're long on using emotion to fire up their base and very short on using anything approaching logic. All you have to do is look at what's happening with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination. The Left was demonstrating BEFORE they even knew who the nominee was.
You've got politicians like Chuck Schumer, who has predicted the demise of the human race, if Kavanaugh's confirmed. Apparently Kavanaugh is going to take away all health care from women, all rights for gays and he may even institute slavery again, should he ever get on the Supreme Court, if you were to believe the rantings of the Left. The fact that there is absolutely nothing in his rulings that support these contentions doesn't matter to the Left. Anyone who's not an activist Leftist judge is going to have his/her character assassinated and be made to appear as the second coming of the Devil, because the Left doesn't want a strict constitutionalist on the Supreme Court. They want Activist Judges, who will legislate from the bench to allow the Left to advance agendas that would never pass in the Legislative branch, thus subverting the Constitution.