I fear this is too charitable an estimation of the average US citizen’s ability to spot propaganda. I genuinely worry some people are fooled by how it’s all wrapped in the flag and not understanding the dangers of nationalism or the alt right pipeline just fall for it and end up buying in, not because they were inherently a bad person, but because they were easily fooled (the main cause of which I believe is that they were intentionally not taught critical thinking skills and media literacy as those skills more easily allow us to see through the various illusions, and the same goes for emotion regulation skills, empathy, and an understanding of marginalization and intersectional politics, which protect against the coordinated effort by the system(s) and those with power to attempt to turn us against each other and see others as non-human, but that’s a whole huge conversation (that I’m willing to have but not necessarily publicly; feel free to reach out if you intend to have a good faith conversation))