Because power held for long periods creates a sort of ‘that can never happen to me because I’m rich/powerful/part-of-the-in-group/whathaveyou’ attitude. That plus the desire to keep that power at all costs makes for weak-spined nonsense like this.

His ancestors are weeping

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

That’s it. That’s all. They want an out-group to abuse. And they have to justify people being in that out-group, so they make them lesser somehow: they’re ‘stupider, crueler, useless to society’, unlike the Amazing and Super Perfect people in the in-group.

You got a plan then?

Sure, now they complain.

Don’t for a second think it’s by accident. This was done to make areas less accessible to ‘undesirables’. After builders and realtors were told to stop forcing PoC into specific areas, they just went ahead and built suburbs that you basically had to have a car to access, ensuring poorer people were kept out.

He’s probably doing it in preparation for revoking the ADA.

They had rented rooms in the hobbit portion of the inn, and it’s implied that the ‘mean swarthy-looking person’ who ‘looked more than half like a goblin’ who was staying with Bill Ferney ratted them out to the Nazgûl as well.

Strider did the sensible thing and had them stay in his room instead.

It’s stated that the Nazgûl cannot clearly sense the ring unless it’s worn by someone. They know it’s nearby, but not how close. That’s also how the hobbits and Aragorn slipped away into the wilds without being caught too.

‘Tell me I’m part of an in-group. That I’m great and that I belong and that nothing will change that. Then show me an out-group, and make them suffer so I can feel even better about being in the in-group.’

That is what Conservatives have been asking for. That is what they really want. And he’s giving it to them, as a thank-you for getting him into office.

See also: ‘He’s not hurting the right people!’

The bonus is this also advances the Nazi agenda.

Firearms. They’re asking about firearms.

They were then too.

Hell, lots of people in the US were in the Nazi camp all way up to WWII when we got to see that kind of regime in unfettered action.

I’m just saying that’s what they think. Of course it’s going to fuck everything else over, but the people supporting this in the hallowed halls of congress seem to be in one of two camps lately.

They want the economy to crash.

One side because they like to crash businesses and then walk away with all the money, and they figure a country is no different.

And the other side will let them, because they want people to stop playing those degenerate evil video games. That it does great damage to the country is simply a just punishment for allowing such degeneracy in the first place, in their minds.

Well that’s a bit alarming.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

Trump is in the in-group. And since he’s in the in-group, it’s fine that he does whatever he wants. The power exists to serve that group after all.

Was it ever there?

Sundown Towns. Ugly Laws. Banana Republics. I’m sure if you asked any minority group, they’d show you a very different America.

There are two versions of the US: the one sold to immigrants on the Statue of Liberty, and the one that’s really there. White folk were just privileged enough with such a system that we never saw it, or if we did we looked the other way.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

They’re desperate to find an ‘out group’ they can feel superior towards. In the ‘good ol days’ all you had to do was look at someone’s skin color, but now they’re being told they can’t do that (openly).

They’re also cowards.

So they’re aiming for a very small, underprivileged group that they think still seems ‘weird’ and ‘outside the norm’ enough that they can pick on them and not get in social trouble for it.

The problem is (and this is also a part of why they don’t like trans people) trans people look like everyone else, so they have to go around yelling at everybody and looking like morons.

A ton more than other people of his time. Like, diehard racists told him to chill out and be less racist.

Riiiiight

Well, that’s disappointing. Usually Merkley and Wyden are forefront of fighting this stuff.