Does Red Really Back the Blue?

Reactionaries think the role of law enforcement, and the state in general, is to protect themselves and their property from rampaging minorities who despise them and their values. By and large, local law enforcement does that with gusto. As a result, reactionaries give it their unqualified support.

But when law enforcement is used against people who look and sound like reactionaries, the picture is completely different. Cheating on your taxes is OK, because, after all, you earned that money, and the government has no right to take it away and give it to undeserving, lazy blue people. Fraud is also OK, because the victims are just too stupid to protect themselves. And insurrection? God made Trump president! The voters had no right to say otherwise!

In a sense, of course, this is completely hypocritical and self-interested. In another sense, creating legal preferences for white Christians is the very essence of reactionary ideology, so accusations of hypocrisy will fall on deaf ears.