>>15287I'd counter that the American right-wing is nothing if not extremely ideological.
It's a utopian ultranationalism based on the idea that straight white Christian cisgender people who aren't disabled are a kind of master race that built America, with the Founding Fathers being made up of their group exclusively, and they need to restore the U.S. to its former glory by purging society of degenerate, modernist elements ranging from LGBT people to disabled people to Muslims to Jews to Hindus and so on.
Once God's superior chosen people take their rightful place and uphold traditional values upon a populace without sin, the belief goes, then we will have economic progress. We will have social growth. We will have foreign policy achievement.
Trump as President is nothing if not an absolutist and ideological extremist, particularly since he's got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using the U.S. federal government to enforce the belief that America has too many gay people, people with autism, transgender people, et cetera supposedly because of bad nutrition and chemical pollutants. Stuff like that, Republicans believe, turn little kids from heterosexual to homosexual and do other such things, with to them also ruins those children's lives forever through that mutation.
There's also all of the tough-on-crime and tough-on-immigration alongside tough-on-social-vice crusades done in order to purge American society of what the right-wing views as immoral, disgusting, and degenerate riffraff contaminants who as malformed people damage both social order and higher civilization, according to the Republicans.
And the need to exterminate social supports for disabled people, poor people, and others who're downtrodden by getting rid of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, et cetera through Elon Musk's determined efforts is based an ideological conviction about biologically superior people owing nothing to biologically inferior people that basically speaks for itself (supposedly).
As hardline Christian fundamentalists have said for centuries, sin is evil. Evil is sin. Error is sin. Sin is error. Error is evil.
The only way to eliminate error, evil, and sin from society is to be ruthless: you must destroy those who violate God's holy doctrines without mercy, because you shall receive none from them (supposedly).