Good observations. It’s just the way politics and sociology intertwine.
About half of Americans, or more, can’t handle even following politics, so just try to ignore it all.
Of the remaining 50%, about half of them just want a hero that they can put all their faith in, to be their champion, be he be on the right or the left, and they want that hero put on a pedestal and never questioned about anything. It is their way of coping, just as the 50% of all Americans cope by just ignoring it all.
That leaves the remaining 25%, or a little but les, who are typically more independent of being blindly loyal to any party, or politician, who don’t really trust any of them, and just want to keep their feet to the fire. We have a lot of those types here, thankfully.
As the poet Edger Allen Poe stated “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see”, I tend to follow this anymore.