Well I did say that I only somewhat disagreed with what you said. In my opinion the US propaganda machine never stops running. the only thing that changes is the political party it favors as propagandists. During the run up to the 2nd Iraq War Fox, specifically Hannity & O'Reilly, were constantly labeling anyone against the war as being un-American, terrorist lovers, terrorist enablers, in bed with terrorists or just outright terrorists. Take out the terrorist & insert Russia & you have the Democrat MSNBC CNN response to Trump. Same shit different day. If you asked most diehard Trump hating liberal Democrats if they knew they were essentially following the same script that Republicans used against them a few short years ago, they would deny it. I think they would be entirely incapable of seeing it because they, much like the right in 2003, think they're morally justified. "The right spews hate while we spew facts" would probably be a good description of their mindset. I think that the people that run this machine are quite smart. They understand what motivates each group & that understanding lets them manipulate so successfully. With the right they wrap everything in the flag. That flag, whether the right admits it or not, puts most of them in a trance. With the left they couch everything in social justice terms or PC terms because they know that your average liberal is so completely terrified of being labeled racist or homophobic or transphobic that the easiest way to get them to shut the fuck up is by labeling the guy you want them to hate as a racist or homophobe or transphobe. What I would be curious to be able to see is an alternate reality where the populist who won in 2016 was Sanders. Would the attacks be rightward led by people blathering on about the America hating Socialist? Would Hillary be the Dem version of Liz Cheney turning on her own party's president? As Matt has pointed out Hillary & crew were already accusing the Bernie Bros. of racist, sexist behavior & he hadn't even won the election or even the nomination. In the end, this is globalists feverishly defending their own, very lucrative for them, agenda against any and all critics & opponents.