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> while they do other shit that is terrible

Namely, blow out the deficit to fund tax cuts and engage in massive grift.

BTQ+ only. Peter is gay so they don't hunt gays anymore.

This isn't a purely American thing, either. For quite a while, the British right's thing was Brexit. When Brexit actually happened, this kind of evaporated as a motivator, and they very visibly tried to pivot to transphobia as a primary voter motivator (it didn't really work, but it was remarkably blatant).