I think the answer to the last is no. It’s an idee fixe you’re fighting. I’ve tried to do it too. The broken record keeps coming back to the same place.
Well then pray he doesn’t have the effect on people he’s trying to have.
This country is based on separating the concept of government, from the concept of society.
Obviously, liberals have completely rejected that idea - by definition.
But it is a seriously insidious act to apparently reject liberalism, while invoking the liberal collectivist mindset for supposedly conservative principles - all while claiming to do so to prevent a drift to the left.
In fact, that’s a three-letter-agency level of insidiousness, IMO.