Yeppers; it was the same also with the illegals and borders.
Until so many finally became personally inconvenienced, or had loved ones murdered, or the like. Then the “stories” we told became “true.” Up until then, it was as if we each were being “Baghdad Bobs”.
I remember very well all the bleeding hearts on the illegal threads. Buying into the amnesty scam; eating it up like Sunday supper.