“First, Mulvaney isn’t just a left-wing political activist. Mulvaney specialized in marketing to young kids. Using Barbie dolls and singing songs about being a young girl were squarely in Mulvaney’s wheelhouse. There’s something seriously wrong with that; almost any normal person would agree.”
Something is indeed seriously wrong with him.
I’m not sure about the rest.
Some people are just self-absorbed and nutso.
In the early 1930s everybody thought the Nazis were nuts.
By the time they figured out what was going on it was too late.