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You're correct, it's just his target audience choosing to look past (or quietly embrace) his fascist, murderous past that he is in no way apologetic about, let alone working to repair.
So the question is: why does his target audience do that? That audience is: electoral-brained liberals of all stripes. Same ones that gave Bernie a pass on Zionism. They're enveloped in the shallow logic and talking points of "lesser evil" electoralism and thought-terminating clichés. And the worst of them are actually tailist, they think the way you appeal to "the libs" is by embracing certain stereotypes of white America, including the casual racism, national chauvinism, military worship, and so on.
Liberals excuse (and promote!) this stuff all the time in rhetoric and action, they just usually reject aesthetic association with Nazis. They very recently embraced or tolerated settler colonialism genocide when "their side" supported it, at least until it became considered gauche. Actual Nazi shit, just without swastikas and heils. Liberals and Nazis are close cousins.