Because the US electorate has shown itself to be, over the last 40-50 years, easily manipulated against “the other”? The fact that Reagan - one of those destru

Because the US electorate has shown itself to be, over the last 40-50 years, easily manipulated against “the other”? The fact that Reagan - one of those destructive and incidiously evil influences on modern US politics - isn’t villified but in fact bizarrely lionized by a large section of the population should be proof of that enough.