The tsunami of brazen, unhinged enraged lies from most of the media and many on the left, genuinely seems like a deadly serious mental illness. It terrifies me more than physical violence does.
It's a mean girls club. It isn't so much about objective reality as appearances.
People will do just about anything to keep their social economic status. They see how the deplorables were marginalized and they know it can happen to them. They want to be on the right side of history even if it requires being wrong.