It's crazy how all the things conservatives are scared of are so far away and in distant places yet as soon as they see it first hand they're like "oh shit, I was just an asshole."

I watched the Utah governor's press conference and he literally says something like, "I've spent 33 hours praying it was someone not from here, someone who came in here, someone from out of the country". Like dude, you have an entire echo chamber set up to make and keep your people angry, your entire political machine is geared to keep them angry, and y'all have advocated for the right to shoot people for so long that you literally can't take their guns away, and you thought oh, it'll be someone from out of state? He was so upset he was almost crying. Still can't admit any of that, though.

They aren't gullible so much as living up to the American ideal. What's more American than being frightened, angry, greedy, ignorant and selfish, while telling yourself you are god's chosen?