The Republican party (and RWers in general) has always had its factions. The violent antigovernment faction has always been there, inspired by old western movies and mythos around the rugged individual trying to make it on his own, and being stymied by government forces. That faction has been growing and merging with others (like the anti-science factions and the evangelical factions). It's now a party dominated by sufferers of Dunning-Kruger (or those taking advantage of them) who use QAnon and random YouTubers on the internet as their main source of information.
More than that, they've become a blood cult, living in a doomsday scenario within their own heads where they are the saviors of a white population being driven out of the majority by immigrants and crime. It's their
raison d'être for many of their horrific fascist leanings. Let's look at a few of these.
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