Reply #3: Well, crazy people are generally naturally crazy

[Warpy]

and produced by an unhappy confluence of genetics, brain chemistry and life stressors.

I see something else at work with the right wing, a cadre of people who have convinced themselves and each other that reality can be manufactured and who inhabit an increasingly strange reality that has spun so far out of control that it no longer resembles much in the normal space-time continuum.

It's the same for any isolated population under stress that has spun into insanity, most notably the town of Salem during the witch trials. Eventually the magistrates realized "this is nuts" and brought an end to the whole thing.

The isolation the right wing finds itself in is one it has chosen for itself. Unfortunately, they're in so much pain from cognitive dissonance that a few of them will continue to act out violently from time to time until they are so discredited they are reduced to objects of derision.