People have great difficulty with blame. Unless you are a friend and supporter of Putin then what do you have to do with his crimes against humanity?

I have been a lifelong student of the Holocaust period in Europe during the 1940s and I always wondered how the German people allowed Hitler to rise to power and start a war that ended in nearly 50,000,000 deaths. And then when Trump was elected I got my answer: Too many people cannot recognize a sociopath, or they will support a sociopath because he offers certain benefits that they want, like a better economy, promises of security, lower taxes, a ban on books and abortion, and so forth. And on January 6th a few years ago the United States nearly fell to a would-be dictator. Fortunately, the insurrection failed and then Trump's criminal actions failed to overturn an election that he clearly lost, but it's quite obvious how things unfold in the wrong direction. So what did I and tens of millions of people who do not support Trump have to do with the state of things and the decline of so much civility in the US? And what do you have to do personally with the attack on Ukraine and the ensuing violence and destruction led by Russia under the command of yet another sociopath?

People lump people together; they make generalities. If you happen to be on the wrong side of the street then you are seen as the problem. After 9/11 all Muslims in this country were regarded by the mainstream as terrorists. With the pandemic, Asians were on the hate list. On and on it goes, because people are not, by and large, deep thinkers; they need to blame others for their pain and suffering, no matter how misguided and cruel their conclusions are..