Conservative bullies believe they'll almost always win in the end if they just keep at it and force their way through to their end goal. For most business & personal goals where they have significant control over most variables, this unfortunately tends to work out well for them. So they believe they can apply it to everything.

Social & societal issues are areas where they have significantly less direct control (unless you have control over most everything that society is exposed to from practically the day they're born), which is why they rely upon lies and manipulation so much. The complexity of managing things you have less direct control over makes being successful at it much more unpredictable, however.

Since bullying their way through is their instinctive modus operandi, they'll still try to do it with these issues no matter what feedback they get. So while it may feel satisfying to put them on the spot, they're unlikely to take the feedback seriously - even from their own base.

It's blatant arrogance that has been the hallmark of the MAGA world, and which ultimately will be their undoing. Unfortunately, we still have to sit through the process even though it's so easy to see where it's going. Kinda like watching a show with your kids that's predictable AF, but that they're loving because they think they've never seen anything like it before even though the basic storyline has been done a million times in their other shows.

that works on regular people like you or me because we have morals, empathy, some form of consciousness... Johnson and the rest of the circus are just complete sociopaths... he couldn't care about this lady or her kids, to him they are as important as a discarded toe nail