I am an independent voter not registered with either party, but the constant, years-long attempts to take perhaps truly flawed policy, but exaggerate its awfulness beyond all reason, is disturbing. I suspect it's having the opposite of the intended effect with the voters. People aren't so easy to fool, and when they think you're trying really hard to fool them they do the opposite of what you're trying to get them to do.

Even more disturbing is that whenever I read a post like this, I get the feeling that it made someone really happy, and they wrote it with a smile on their face.

I am concerned that the people who hate Trump so much might be willing to do almost anything to prevent him from being elected again. For example, I wonder if the resistance to trying hydroxychloroquine is at least in part because some people secretly wish for the virus to continue killing people so they can blame Trump for it. I wonder if, back when he wanted to close the borders due to the virus, someone who secretly dislikes him but is in his circle of advisors, strongly urged him to keep the borders open so he could be blamed for it later.

Okay, so that last paragraph sounds a little paranoid. But after years of people just taking absolutely anything and trying to find something to attack him with, after the streets filled with people screaming "not my president", after the lies willing to be told about Brett Kavanaugh, I really can't put much past the zealously anti-Trump people, who I distinguish from ordinary people who happened to vote for someone else.