Sure, but daily?
Whenever I see a devout conservative upset about what the Republican party is turning into, I wonder how much of their problem is due to a belated sense of morality and how much is do to a growing awareness that the old tactics are not working as well.
I’m going to openly Godwinize here; if you were a German who turned on Hitler in 1934, you might have been a good person. But if you were a German who turned on Hitler in 1944, you were just seeing which way the wind was blowing.
The closest explanation I’ve ever really heard is that in their minds, they are America. America is a white, christian patriarchy. Everyday America becomes more just and equal, and it lifts up out groups to higher levels, which reduces the relative sense of status and privilege of the in groups (whites, men, christians, native born). Non-whites, women, non-christians, immigrants, etc are all growing in number and power. White christians were something like 81% of Americans in the 1970s, now they’re something like 45%. We had a black president. I think women make up more middle managers in corporate america than men do now. Immigrants are a bigger share of the nation. Non-whites are a bigger share. Secularism is the fastest growing ‘religion’. etc.
Something like 85% of the people who stormed the capital on 1/6 were white men despite white men only making up 30% of the country. I’m sure most were christians. This is them desperately trying to hold onto an unequal society that places them at the top. They’re also unconsciously terrified that when they become the minority, they’ll be treated the same way they treat minorities. In their minds they are in a survival situation against a system that is making them irrelevant, deleting their sense of identity, removing their relative sense of status, and vulnerable to being treated the same way they’ve treated their previous victims, once a coalition of out groups (feminists, muslims, atheists, brown people, immigrants, and their allies) gain power. I think I once heard that the one thing southern whites opposed to racial justice hated more than a black person fighting for equality, was a white person helping them to fight for it. I guess they felt like those white people betrayed their own race or something. But I can see this becoming a bigger and bigger issue in America soon where whites who support progressivism are vilified more and more by the right.
I don’t know what the long tern end game is. I used to have hope that demographics would drown these people out. That it was mostly old white people filled with rage about social justice and equality and every year millions of them would die of old age and be replaced by better human beings (their more tolerant, more educated grandkids). But as has been mentioned, a lot of young people and latinos are buying into it too. I don’t know what the future holds but it looks scary.
Part of me thinks a lot of it is just them being upset that they can’t control the crazies anymore, and that the crazies don’t value plutocracy the same way they do.
When the crazies would vote every 2-4 years for plutocrats, then go home and shut up they were fine with it. But now that the crazies can’t be controlled, and they’re showing signs of economic populism too and willingness to confront corporations (Recently the republicans have threatened corporations they don’t like in the house and senate with things like tax hikes), now its an issue.
But they never minded the crazies when they weren’t in charge and voted for plutocrats.