There are a lot of broken people out there. Read The Authoritarians. My guess is that a not insignificant portion of the republicons - including the voters - count as RWA. And then there are other character traits like the dark triad and so on.
Lot of cons seem to cheer the idea of hurting other people. They seem to prioritize this even over their very real needs. For instance, they fret and froth and gnash their teeth and rend their garments over “men in women’s sports”. They used to also spend a lot of time worried about men marrying men, too (still do, really, but hating on trans has taken center stage. For the moment).
Having men play in women’s sports will affect them not in the slightest bit. Not in the least. It’s the on the margins of the margins. But they’d rather see trans people hurt over almost anything else.
Same thing with having the FCC cancel TV shows on corporate media. Or mass deportation. They’d rather see liberals upset more than almost anything else in their lives.
There are a lot of broken people out there. Read The Authoritarians. My guess is that a not insignificant portion of the republicons - including the voters - count as RWA. And then there are other character traits like the dark triad and so on.
Lot of cons seem to cheer the idea of hurting other people. They seem to prioritize this even over their very real needs. For instance, they fret and froth and gnash their teeth and rend their garments over “men in women’s sports”. They used to also spend a lot of time worried about men marrying men, too (still do, really, but hating on trans has taken center stage. For the moment).
Having men play in women’s sports will affect them not in the slightest bit. Not in the least. It’s the on the margins of the margins. But they’d rather see trans people hurt over almost anything else.
Same thing with having the FCC cancel TV shows on corporate media. Or mass deportation. They’d rather see liberals upset more than almost anything else in their lives.