The entire right wing methodology for the last 25 years has been to admit "yes, we're corrupt and evil" and then lie "but so are all politicians and at least we're honest about it", and it's successfully conned a bunch of ill-informed people including many who see themselves as moderate or left
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend
The modal "apolitical" guy in current year is someone who insists "politics is a shitshow, I don't pay attention to it" but knows of every single right wing two minutes hate thing that's going on because social media shoves ragebait in their faces
