Aren’t there multiple reasons, with varying levels of self-delusion, self-awareness, and multi-level bigotry involved depending on which people we’re talking about?
Isn’t repeatedly and blatantly screwing over 99% of the public for the benefit of less than 1% a longstanding truly bipartisan effort, which the Republicans have been leading ever since Reagan?
I certainly can’t think of one, but is there any other way to characterize this than an abusive relationship?
Haven’t I been able to shut people up about “Judeo-Christian values” merely by asking them to name 3 examples from Colonial America to show some history of the Judeo part?