He would just rather look at them and the show they want to project in fantasy instead of the bad orange Boogeyman the television scared him with.
Americans don't like being told what to do, but will do it if it's their party telling them what to do(especially on the left).
So we are split between what is becoming a dominant force that wants us all to conform to those in authority and a small minority that wants to be left alone.
I vote Libertarian for just about every election just to make a statement, because I know at the heart of the matter left and right are both the same, they both want power over you, it's just that one doesn't like the other telling them what to do. Even Rand Paul with his stellar upbringing from his father Ron, is a kiss ass that licks boots.
I've had arguments with senators that have knocked on my door from the right in the past and they thought I was a lunatic because of my bringing up the police state, drug war, my insistence they support these things and they need to instead embrace libertarian points of view. Some agree with me, others are terrified by what I'm bringing up because they are deeply Christian and see their religion as a cure all tonic.
That's the problem with the right, they talk a big game, they talk about freedom and yet they are at their heart authoritarians. And Trump had some of those same issues. Like holding up a bible in public, licking the boots of cops every chance he got, kissing military ass. He liked the fact that the men with guns liked him a lot, the problem is it's just another form of gang and we are prey.
The left are authoritarians as well, they are just more effeminate, but they would have no problem turning the military against the people of this country. They have moved far past the classical liberal of my day growing up in the 70's and 80's which I often agreed with, to a new type that is straight out of Lenin and Trotsky.
And of course we have this thing about allowing private business(perhaps the worse offender of human rights) to tell us what to do as well, which is another form of authoritarianism. It's seems we are being walled in on every level, that we are subjects of the state and private business.
People are fed up and Trump was an answer to some of these problems, but he didn't go all the way and when he rolled out operation warp speed he in fact unleashed a hell on the American people, instead of telling the bureaucrats and medical industry to piss off, he allowed them power from their position of credentialed authority and that gave private business a sledgehammer to pound people into submission.
I know this all to well having worked in healthcare for 25 years, when I first started things were fine, but as time went on the government told us to do more and more to the point we felt like cattle being put through a chute. I left when the time was right, I now look back in horror at the work environment how suffocating and limiting it was. The money and benefits were good, but they had all the power, you were their slave and the government told you what to do on every level.
When you have bureaucracy in public and private it snuffs out the consciousness of people, they become so controlled that their human nature is erased, there's almost no point in living at that point, you're just going through the motions to survive.
I don't want Trump back, I don't want the left or right in control of this country anymore. I just want a very tiny government that affords the individual maximum rights in every situation both public and private, no one can tell you what to do, you have choice on every level just as long as you don't interfere with someone else being able to do what is best for them as an individual.
You could have a gigantic union that insures freedom. That pushes back on government and private business and tells them you won't control us on any level. Unless we work together we are easy pickings for the right, left and private business.