Today's Wingnut

They have to install a few basic fantasies in their firmware:

1. They're the "real America"
2. They deserve to be obeyed
3. The "enemy" is whoever argues against their righteous vision of absolute power

And, of course, they have to keep insisting on the pretense that "the others" - those other people, the other side, the other whatever - are trying to do what these Daddy State assholes are actually doing.

Once they've decided they're in the right, no manner of shittiness is beyond the pale.

Being shitty in service to a cause is one thing, but every time out, when being shitty is rewarded, then eventually, the shittiness will become the point. Shittiness for the sake of being shitty.