The liberal cult has been waging political war for a long time, while patriots try to fight back with legitimate politics. Liberal cattle are ok with that, and the low information voter is ignorant of it.
Unfortunately patriots are in short supply these days. Being a patriot--being a lover of liberty and the fundamental, inalienable rights belonging to all human beings, respecting hard work and personal responsibility, no matter what your religion, ethnic background, or lot in life is--is seen as quaint, passé, and, of course, that horrible word "problematic." This new ideology gripping not only America but the rest of the globe straight up disdains meritocracy in favor of some utterly bizarre racist voodoo that places the Western tradition (from the Romans on up to modern day America) as the great evil that has haunted the world. Youth these days are being taught in our government schools and communist indoctrination centers (called "universities") that hard work is demeaning and if anything in your life goes wrong, it's the ciswhiteheteropatriarchy's fault and you shouldn't do a single thing to fix your lot in life and should just have it handed to you on a silver platter.
I sound like a nutcase to those that don't know where the political winds are blowing, I know. But look at what is happening with college campus. With how all these far-left ideologies are agitating on all fronts, and how it's becoming mainstream with the media and our politicans. I'm not quite a young man anymore, but I'm young enough to remember high school, where they taught me nonsense about how the second amendment only applied to the national guard, and how the constitution was a "living" document. I can remember how conservatives were implicitly intimidated in college, as disagreeing with the wrong liberal professor could be a bad grade, or worse, the administration would interpret your statement or views as uncharitably as they can in order to put sanctions on you or even expel you.
I took Black Studies. It was Afrocentrist nonsense that basically taught one message: that we need more funding for Black Studies in universities. It's the first class I ever took where I learned that the Egyptians were actually black. I learned that black people were the first to America. I even learned that if enough people believe the weather is going to change, it will!
I had a professor that defended Hugo Chavez during class because he gave everyone free healthcare. I'm sure if we talked about Venezuela today, he'd blame its condition on the CIA.
I had one professor with the last name Marx that laughed about how he had the same views as him. Guy believed in similar nonsense to the black studies instructor where people could change reality just by belief or expectation.
I even had a professor that voiced his dislike of Barry Goldwater, he was still butthurt about that.
The reason patriots are few and far between these days is because we've trained our youth to abhor the freedoms that made this country special. To abhor free enterprise, constitutional protections, and taking responsibility.