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8. If you can convince people that they are victims wronged by other people, they will support punishing those people.

The genius of Trump and the Republican Party has been to turn certain segments of our society into feeling like victims who have been taken advantage of by other groups. I remember a poll taken in Texas a few years back in which evangelical Christians fully supported the notion that they were the most persecuted people in the country and their freedom of religion was being taken away from them.

Right-wing white people have been convinced that they are the victims of racial discrimination, especially white males. A white college student who fails to get into an elite school is victimized because a black person was admitted. The anti-vaccine crowd thinks they are victims of laws requiring children to be vaccinated to attend public school. And on and on. So long as the government is punishing any group that they believe victimized them, many of them will support anything, no matter how heinous or illegal, the government does to them and pretend that they deserve that treatment. It's 1939 Germany.