"Personally, I find it hard to understand how Americans who take pride in our system of government support Trump. All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil. How do they not see it?"

Me too. But I also find it hard to understand how American who take pride in our system of government Support Bernie Sanders. The only thing that makes him less dangerous than Trump is that his positions don't resonate as well with the population's writ-large as Trump's do.

And the biggest reason that Trump's message resonates with even those in the center is that the Dems (and Repubs) have failed to provide a meaningful alternative.

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Um...just to point his out, virtually every one of the liars you mentioned used to be considered liars by the left.

Prior to COVID, the anti-vax thing was mostly a left-wing fringe, anti-big pharma bloc. Although there were some weird Christian anti vax groups as well

Generals were supporters of the military industrial complex and supporters of western capitalist imperialism

The police are still the bad guys-I guess until they are not.

FBI and DOJ? COINTELPRO? Infiltrating left-wing groups? C'mon, until the Trump inspired the crazies on the right to crawl out of the rocks they'd been hiding under, Law Enforcement was always seen by the left as an enemy. Let's not even get into the CIA or the other intelligence agencies.

My point is that the right-wing today, really looks a whole lot like the left-wing from