It is mental programming. They feel very strongly that Patriotic Populists are Authoritarians who want to imprison/eliminate gays, muslims, non-white people etc. They believe we want the world to be 'The Handmaid's Tale'. That's why they believe that we care about Stormy Daniels, but that's getting off topic.

It isn't just that the media told them so. The mockingbird media uses mental programming techniques involving timed pauses, meaningful looks just as looks of disgust. That works on all the Democrats that still watch mainstream news media.

Since young people don't watch news media any more, the elite made sure they were in control of social media. They seeded Facebook, Google, and seized control of YouTube, Twitter and others. Then they used their power to finely tune the programming messages, and outright censorship.

They have managed to turn liberals from 'speaking truth to power', to not caring about the truth, and giving full support to the powerful. All by convincing them to feel hatred towards anybody who values America's founding principles. They justify everything including the poll above, because they want to be against their perceived enemies.

So my overall point is that Democrats don't believe dumb things because Democrats are retarded. They believe this crap because it has been programmed into them by malicious will.