The thing to remember here is that the fascist wing has taken over the GOP. The MAGA embody that extreme and they are in control. They WANT to live under a dictatorship and they will openly admit to that. The base hates democracy because it gives everyone equal rights and they cannot tolerate that.
I know this because I grew up in that environment. Small midwestern town. Idyllic. Weekly sermons about mercy, grace, and love. I spent the first several months of 2025 hopelessly disillusioned as they proved to me that every single bit of it was a lie. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
American Evangelicals panicked as their churches were drained of congregants but instead of asking why people felt disillusioned they chose the unholy matrimony of church and state so they could take the easier path of enforcing their so-called morality at the end of a combat boot.