“if you oppose liberal views then people will think you are some sort of bigot...”
You’re right.
I did an informal poll of half a dozen young workers (under age 25) on my crew and they were all in lockstep in favor of trans in military, homosexual marriage, and global warming.
They get all their news from late night comics and social media. The liberal/radical conformity pressure of social media must be enormous.
It’s because those light night comics use ridicule. If there is one thing that Saul Alinsky nailed, it is this....”Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
And the Left’s control of the media means that they are the ones doing the ridiculing.
What Trump is doing is finally to start ridiculing the Left, and that’s why he’s had the success he’s had. Other Republicans are too wussy, or ineffective at ridicule.