This is the issue with radical liberals. While I'm rather liberal myself, these people are less Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Ghandi like they want to act like they are, and more Hitler with cheaply drawn peace signs over their obvious intentions. The German people as a majority didn't approve of Hitler once they realized what his real intentions were, but by then Hitler and his SS/Gestapo were already making sure that anyone who spoke out, Germanic or not, got the same treatment as the as the more commonly known victims of the Holocaust.
Likewise, I would prefer to think that most people following these individuals, essentially extremists and hypocrites, are only doing so out of fear of being labeled things like "Communist", "Transphobic", or "Misogynistic" and having everyone else turn on them as such, since it has been shown that if enough people shout those things at you, many more will ignore the facts and persecute you anyways, anywhere from being arrested or fired from your job.