I think the cartoon sums it up. I feel that the reason they voted for these little Hitlers, including the vegetable version, is that they actually want to be locked down, masked, force-vaccinated (for their own good, of course), live on the government teat, and suppress dissent - because what they really are is scared.
You will find that most of these people, in varying degrees, supported the lockdowns, were perfectly happy to report their neighbors who might have done something illegal like go to a church service, and were out there forcing their children to spend their formative years with a piece of paper tied around their faces, isolated from other children and even the world outside.
But it made them feel safe. Big oppressive government makes them feel safe.
So remember that this is the first major election after the shutdown, to some extent we are seeing effects of the shutdown and its insane surpression of our freedoms and of normal human life.
Most of these people are atheists, either functionally or literally, most of them get their morality from the media and entertainment world, and they are indeed like sheep without a shepherd. So when the left comes along and tells them that the secret to safety and security is to be found in what is becoming more every day like an open-air prison where even the freedom to breathe is controlled by the government, they’re all in.
And as for the wide open criminality and violence that flourishes under a leftist regime, well, that’s okay. Think of the criminals as the enforcers. Keep your population scared and locked in their homes. Make them fixate on racial differences (which no one can do anything about) and further separate them into controllable groups.
So we do have a problem that goes beyond everything else, even electoral cheating, Trump’s idiotic bloviations, or the media. And it is a spiritual problem.