[kelseyfrog]

And this feels good to some people? I don't get it. Normally I feel bad when people get hurt.

[twisteriffic]

I don't get it either, but I haven't found any other explanation that fits as well.

[intended]

They feel that Dems, liberals, scientists, elites, etc. have hurt them. They are tearing down what they see as left power and cultural centers.

It’s natural to respond to threats, and so they are.

[ethbr1]

Step 1. Identify the political obstacles in your way.

Step 2. Use conservative media to make people hate those things.

Step 3. Get elected on the basis of manufactured hate.

Step 4. Get rid of your political obstacles.

Since the Southern Strategy, American conservativism has been encouraging and weaponizing hate for votes.

And since the gutting and exiling of mainstream conservatives ~2019+, it's fair to say they're now primarily a party of hate. (Both in their elected officials and supporters)

It isn't about actual slights against conservatives by liberals -- at this point those are only rhetorical cover for doing what they want to politically.

[cmurf]

Schadenfreude.