This is messing with my head right now. Good villains are generally written so you can understand their motives. But Senator Kelly was just a plain genocidal asshole. Zero subtlety, no motivations beyond hate for the other. And actual real-life Republicans were open about what big fans they were.
There’s always this little scrap of me that holds on to the belief that Republicans are just paying lip service to a lot of shit to appease backward-thinking voters.
I need to correct that belief. Genocide is the goal for these assholes, too.