what is hardest for me to understand is how they throw their awfulness into our faces, with pride

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. It's a psyops technique, to discourage opposition. Also an in-group reaction to suppress out-groups.

Quelled?

Education. Voting Rights. Rebalancing the Senate (I know, kinda hopeless).

One very big way is to make the nation as progressive as possible. In all ways. Small ways have big effects. At all levels. Locally predominantly, rippling outward.

Make the nation so diverse, so unified by progressive purposes, FORWARD-looking purposes, that it leaves the repugnant deplorables in the dust.

While they are making their white enclaves more insular and more anti-science and more religious and more authoritarian, all under the guise of Freedom and Jesus, ...

... while they get smaller, progressives and liberals and Democrats can expand, can and will use more advanced medicine, become more educated and better able to work with each other and help each other. Better able to generate synergy.

Let the CONservatives and the RepubliQons fall further into DISARRAY, fighting each other over who is more fake and who is more loyal.