We cannot overstate how “well someone’s gotta be king” is the entire thrust of conservatism. It’s a worldview defined solely through interpersonal loyalty, and it ends at one guy who must be the smartest and best and handsomest, or else he wouldn’t be in charge of everything. The rest is just shuffling cards to justify whatever he says is true today.

They think that’s all you’re doing. They think that’s all there is.