Can you blame the left? The dance of interfacing with Conservative rhetoric means constantly having to change up tactics under the assumption that the person doesn't understand because the alternatives to that are that they either refuse to understand because they are selfish and want to be comfortable at the expense of other people's safety... or because they do understand but they are creating scapegoats and targets for the deliberate harm of others because doing so gives them kickbacks or because they think those people are deserving of harm.

Believing they are being tricked or haven't actually thought things through at least gives one the comfortable idea that one's fellow man is not evil or indifferent to evil as long as they benefit. Right wingers think leftists are elitist and leftists hope that right wingers are dumb because being dumb is still better than being actually cruel.