Listen carefully to some of these people.
They sound grossly misinformed.
Why are they misinformed?
Because the GOP has constructed one of he most powerful echo chambers in human history. It started when they needed to break the New Deal coalition in the late 50s; and it accelerated in the 70s. They created an airtight system for channelling corporate profits into building a think tank and media universe for the purpose of capturing the low-information voter. -they spend billions convincing voters that their nation is under siege by an "external", anti-American force (-every day they scare people with warnings about socialists, marxists, communists, terrorists, gays, liberals, secularists, atheists, bra burners, multiculturalists, relativists, the Clintons, Obama). This is exactly what Hitler did. He said that the Real Germany (its religion, language, borders and traditions) had been infiltrated by Jews. Specifically, he claimed that under the Liberal Weimar regime there was too much Liberal tolerance for Jews and other outsiders. As a result, Mother Germany was being eroded from the inside - indeed, her institutions had been captured and it was time for everyday Germans to rise up and take their country back.
You have to hand it the American Rightwing. They executed Hitler's ideology of Revanchism brilliantly.
They used messianic nationalism to a "T" - "you must save our nation from being destroyed; it is the last beacon of freedom and civilization!"
Guess where they get the money to broadcast this ideology into the homes of the stupid? They get it from the ultra wealthy who have decimated American Labor because they can get their goods made cheaper in Communist China. Where do you think our largest retailer - and one of the biggest contributors to the GOP - gets most of its goods manufactured? Answer: communist China.
It's a ******* hoax.
These mega-corporations that have taken over the GOP and large sections of the media don't care about this country. They have looted it. They benefit from Pentagon support of their overseas supply chains; they benefit from this country's modern industrial infrastructure; they benefit from endless subsidies and bailouts - yet, they keep most of their money offshore, and get most of their labor from dictator-run freedom-hating nations.
It's a ******* hoax, but it works because they've convinced enough stupid people to believe it.