A lot of people today speak in hyperbole because it gets attention. Reason gets skimmed over, Chicken Little gets the headline. The approach you seem to be taking is to attack the most hysterical, and use that to justify that all opposition is misguided. So let's not say the sky is falling just yet but let's review just some of the extremely concerning developments over the past 18 months. There's a long list of them, and I question the intellectual honesty of anyone who isn't concerned about any of them.
Cutting taxes and increasing spending has never worked. Our domestic economic plan is slipshod and doesn't appear to be based in any kind of academic or historical insight. Not surprising, considering those who are drafting it seem to be devoid of intellectual curiosity.
We're willingly walking away from the ideals and institutions upon which this country was founded. While I believe a layer of skepticism towards all things is healthy, the administration is strategically attacking and attempting to dismantle these things in order to clear the way for God knows what. And has been well established, those attacks are consistently absent of facts. At this point, I don't see how anyone can argue that this is not a clear strategy from the top.
Like it or not, this is a global economy. Protectionism and economic isolationism is a bizarre and blazingly ignorant philosophy in the 21st century, and will do long term damage to the country. Using the term Globalist as a epithet is a red badge of ignorance.
Tariffs and added governmental interference will do nothing but drive inflation higher. There is nothing efficient about it at all, but of course to debate the merits of tariffs assumes that our president actually has a cogent strategy, which I'd argue is not the case.
Our absurd and pointless confrontational approach to our friends and allies has put us in the back seat when it comes to leading the world. What are we achieving? At what cost? I'm not sure how anyone can look at this development and see it as a positive. It can be repaired, but it will require us to elect someone who actually knows what the fuck he/she is doing in 2020.
We haven't mentioned the fact that our President OPENLY AND PUBLICLY FAWNS OVER DICTATORIAL LEADERS. How can anybody accept this? You cannot on one hand claim to want peace and to stop playing games, and then on the other hand play games and publicly belittle our allies' leaders.
You can get lost in speculation as to why all of this is happening. I'll just say that it's definitely bizarre, and perhaps telling, that the USA has appeared to do a complete 180 and adopt the foreign policy positions of Russia over the past 18 months. In a more sane era, there would have been chaos in D.C. when the President of the United States questioned the opposition of Russia's annexation of Ukraine. You hope that this is the scattershooting of a clearly uneducated and unfit man, who has little to no ability to think and talk on his feet. But I suspect it's something more nefarious.
I think your last paragraph is telling, and I do believe a lot of people in this country would urinate on the constitution and the graves of the founding fathers, so long as it meant that their comfortable suburban lifestyle is preserved, and that they perceive their families to be safe from brown people. That way of thinking is fucked.