Well maybe if you didn't fucking endorse him in the first place, this would not have happened.
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Right, but I think that makes some assumptions about their psychology that isn't true for all of the left-wing populists.
They clearly have a herd mentality, but, I would wager that many of them think of themselves as "free thinkers", "critical thinkers", or whatever. Their intentions are often good (they genuinely think they are right and helping progress society), they are just deeply misguided (i.e., believing that socialism is good), and they often falling into the trap of de-humanzing people + proceeding to dox them.
So, once they see that right-wing populism does achieve good, say, through the accomplishments of Trump as president, they begin to question their beliefs. That's all it takes. Alternatively, fake news might turn some of them too. It'd be worth asking some former Bernie-bros (and now pro-Trumpers) about it.
An example of a Bernie-pro turned Trumpster is journalist/YouTuber H. Goodman (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDB5XReUyyqt-FTNdkzFN-A ). I haven't watched too much of his content, but, there might be something in there about why he converted.
I can only speak for myself, but my mentality was along these lines: I know that the Republicrat party is bad, and the only way to get someone into the whitehouse who will actually oppose the TPP is to elect an outsider who isn't in the uniparty club. This narrows it down to either Sanders or Trump.
Because I was still somewhat media influenced, it looked like Sanders was the only one who had a snowball's chance in hell at this. However, I understood what was happening immediately when he sold out, so I switched to Trump and proceeded to get redpilled on all the pedo shit. I already knew the Clintons were bad and running a mafia, but I didn't know how bad they really were. The only items I truly changed my mind on were tax cuts and global warming. (which are good, and a hoax, respectively)