A retreat into a paranoid world (Fox, Sinclair, etc) where one feels accosted by monstrous bad objects-- immigrants, women, LGBTQ+, homeless, minorities, liberals, non-Christians, "communists," city people, etc-- and increasingly threatens violence against these scapegoats like they, conservatives, are really the cornered victims ("they will not replace us," etc). This is a common enough human smokescreen Repuglicans have erected to avoid experiencing crushing guilt for their own hatreds and destructiveness:
Guilt for backing a convicted felon,
a hero to crooks and abusers,
guilty of flagrant election interference,
guilty of massive amounts of financial fraud,
wrong on women's rights, wrong on climate change, wrong on protecting workers,
guilty for supporting the biggest traitor to the country in American history, one bent on destroying democracy for the sake of the preposterously narcissistic fantasy that he ought to be The Boss, Il Duce, America's Cheetolini!
Conservatives are stuck in a Reality TV nightmare of their own making and now one they cannot escape. Or, in other words, the Republican party is a failed state and Trump their Warlord. And the rest of us are hoping the adults in leadership stand up before the party of sadistic bigot reaction destroys everything.
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