He’s answering a question from a young person who doesn’t have the experience and years behind him to know.
That is an important point you make which I am discounting.
Problem is, we have a generation of “mature” people who have not been given exposure to any kind of critical thinking.
Granted, if you have kids (or were once a kid!!) if you pay attention, you can actually see and hear deception, and that is the kind of thing that life-experience can give you.
But given that there were probably about 35-40% of people who really did cast votes for the likes of Fetterman and Biden, that means there is a huge population who cannot think or...don’t care.
Either way, it is a problem. Ignorant people are sheep to be led.