I understand all that...it still doesn’t explain their need to go about it the way they do! They can gain power so much more easily by doing good and being honest than sowing all the chaos and division. And lying about everything. It’s like they don’t know how to real and love this country. Hate must be their life. It’s crazy.
So, that is the reason you see them acting the way they do. They know, no one wants any part of their non-sense ideologies, so, they have to, no matter how it looks, lie/distort/propagandize/gaslight/divide, while adding chaos/violence, to the mix, not to persuade people to their side, but, instead, to fool, force, and/or scare people to accept it.