Most elites and journalists who trot out this line are fully aware it is false. Their motives vary: will to power, protecting their status or their demographic group, etc. I don't believe the average lib is lying when they express their fear of Trump, though. To truly lie they would have to understand the system enough to know the part or the whole of their claim is false, and most of them do not.
I believe the mind of a lib is relatively comfortable with their place in the status quo - on a level akin to subsistence. They like to bitch about the problems in their life, especially if they can tie them to the right wing, but overall they can effectively satiate their day-to-day needs with drugs, social media, hookups, porn, consumerism, food, or whatever. This is true all the way from living in a safe middle-class neighborhood to living tranny life on the street. Maybe they're Antifa living out of a van, but at least they got their drugs and their furry porn. Maybe their kid's necromorph phase isn't working out and he's suicidal, but the family gets a lot of love on social media. Maybe inflation is blowing up the food bill - but there's always Netflix and credit card debt. They're vaguely conscious things aren't heading in a good direction, but they're always able to get to their crutches.
The lib, on some level, is OK living with hardship, self-injury, and filth, as long as he has his vices. Harvey Milk was fine with STDs as long as he could help himself to twinks. MLK Jr. could live with threats to his life as long as he had his orgy and rape parties. The average Dem voter recapitulates this pathology on a less dramatic level.
This is bread and circuses, but not textbook. Most Americans and Westerners are hurting, but some people are more or less fine with their current level of pain.
These people never needed or wanted to learn about our system. They never investigated whether Trump is Hitler, not because they lack the intelligence but because it's simply not important to them. They have gone along to get along and found their own personal lines of dopamine supply within the cultural forces imposed on us. If the tides rise in that direction, then so much the better. What is that going to change? The real problem is the reversal of the tides, which would leave them stranded. If the media says that someone is threatening to upset the status quo, then that person is rejected. It's the instinctive choice - it's mentally easy.
Right wing people are affected in the same way by the same forces, but they have something that libs don't: the sense or the impression or the memory of something in the past greater than what we have now, whether that goes back to the 1990s or ultimately to the Garden of Eden. This urge compels a person to stand against the tide, or at least ask where it is going. If libs look ahead, they look sightlessly to a utopia that never existed, while right wingers look to monuments far taller than themselves.
The average "liberal" is just some weak minded person that has succumbed to the constant leftist indoctrination/propaganda campaign - and the subsequent peer pressure that is applied by the already indoctrinated - that everyone is bombarded with from the time they enter kindergarten. Nearly every new "current year" radical leftist value/belief they have isn't something they arrived at on their own, but something that was instilled in them by the leftists doing the indoctrinating.
How many people are seriously sitting around on their own and coming to conclusions like, "You know what we need to make into a key issue? We absolutely need d00ds pretending to be women playing in female sporting events, and shitting in the women's restrooms. This is crucial.", or stuff like, "Having a border is fucking
retardedr-worded. Clearly, we're all a lot better off just letting anyone walk in (regardless of how dangerous they are), gobbling up billions of dollars worth of benefits (causing not only taxes to go up, but stuff like your health insurance to cost more because someone eventually has to pay for all the illegals who go to the hospital and don't pay, but still consume the service), resources at school - that should be spent on your kids - instead being spent on the illegals' kids, etc."Seriously - how many fucking people would actually come to these conclusions on their own, without being indoctrinated into it? There is just no fucking way. It's not natural for people to have stupid opinions like these. The left 100% indoctrinates the populace into these asinine beliefs.
This is the whole issue. A current example is the same women that sent you “let’s annoy my boyfriend about Taylor swift” videos are now the biggest consumers of “only incels are annoyed with Taylor Swift” content. A lot of what you think are leftists are just people that don’t realize they’re not thinking about something.