They aren’t victims, but they wish they were. They’re awful people who want to be openly awful to others to feel better about themselves, and fox “news” lets them indulge their awful impulses and emboldens them to be the awful people they want to be. Then when they get confronted for being awful, they play the victim instead of learning to live and let live.

Obviously this isn’t true of all fox viewers or religious people, but I have been thinking about this lately as our new dynamic. It’s not supposedly about the best way to help people anymore (and what we can/can’t or should/shouldn’t do), it’s now one side that still supposedly wants to help people and one that has given up the pretense entirely and only stands for cruelty.