All of that's the pot calling the kettle black, though, isn't it? Talk of "the left" is misleading since the "woke" extremists who are indeed close-minded and cultish (as I've argued elsewhere) don't represent Democrats, and they have no real power in the US government.
But this is also Trump's patented form of obnoxiousness. Everything he's obviously guilty of he turns around and accuses his foes of being guilty of. He's done this time and time again, and it's pure gaslighting. There's no question that the GOP has become cult-like under Trump--not some far-right extremists that would be equivalent to wokesters, but the GOP itself. There's nothing remotely comparable to the cultishness of Trump's GOP on the left. Again, that's gaslighting, and Trump's defenders seem to have learned this brazen technique of distraction from the ringleader himself.
Likewise, you're only gaslighting when you talk about "divisive hate" coming from the left. Pot kettle black since Trump's demagoguery takes the form of egregious divisiveness.
You're shooting the messenger. What's sad isn't the calling of Trump's fans "deplorable." No, what's sad is the fact that modernity (capitalism, democracy, and liberalism) has evidently failed America so badly that many Americans must be relatively deplorable to have voted twice for Trump.
You say half of Americans can't be idiots. First of all, roughly only half or two-thirds of Americans vote. So we'd be talking about a quarter or a third of Americans as being incapable of thinking up to modern standards (critically, skeptically, and objectively, as I said in the article).
And how do you know that's not so? Why would you assume that the US can't be full of so many folks who have no business voting because they understand the world so poorly? Do you think the US education system is working so well? Lots of polls show that many Americans have preposterous beliefs that must be based on profound ignorance and a lack of critical thinking skills. Doesn't Trump himself decry the state of American society? If the country is as bad as Trump says it is, why expect most Americans to be well-informed, responsible citizens?
