Of course they’re afraid! If you watched/listened to right wing media every day you would be too. That’s all they talk about: The other is out to get them. To make their lives harder. To turn their children gay/trans! To steal their jobs! To replace them, the true Americans!

If the world is too complicated for you to understand it sure feels great to hear someone simplify it for you like that. It’s not your dumb ass that’s causing any problems, it’s the others! The ones that aren’t like you! They don’t even look like you! They come from different places! They have strange and scary traditions and rituals you don’t understand! It must be a conspiracy! They’re out to take everything away from you!

The world can’t be that complicated, right? The Right believes that everything has a simple explanation. That’s why they love talking points. Right wing media embraces this to the extreme. A scientist listening to Fox News explain something like CRISPR might just barf; it’s that bad. Whereas non-mainstream right wing media wouldn’t even try and would instead just make something up like saying, “they’re using chemicals to turn the frogs gay.”