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Lmao, Chelsea Manning living rent free in his head.
This very good book talked about the conservative movement when it was much more innocent

https://www.amazon.com/Watch-Right-Conservative-Intellectual...

and pointed out that conservatives feel that people have a right to feel comfortable in their own skin, in their community, etc. The flip side of that is that they might come to think they have the right to expel people (minorities, immigrants) who make them feel uncomfortable.

That pandering to people in the form of "you are OK, your country is OK" is a powerful tool if you want to win people over, seduce people, get their vote, etc.