Republicans don't have a crisis with identity. They have an unshakeable identity built around white supremacist grievance.

They have a crisis with reality. They refuse to live in it. Anybody who tries gets censured and shunned, threatened and expunged.
One of our two major political parties is openly proudly fascist. They are fascist in the only way fascists can be fascist, which is happily and angrily at the same time. Happily because they've found their purpose. Angrily because reality keeps intruding.

It's a dire problem.
I'm aware they think they're good people.

In fact, fascists always think they're good people—not just good people, but the best and greatest people. This on the way to believing that only they are people.

That's where they are. Ask them; they'll tell you.

American Fascists.
An overwhelming quality of fascism is it must be believed perfect. Any accusation of fault must always find origins elsewhere:

*We didn't do it
*OK we did it but actually they do it too—and worse
*They're the ones who started it
*They made us do it to them

American Fascists.
It's never about improvement for fascists, because of course attempting improvement would mean engaging in the reality of imperfection.

It's always about restoration: return to the perfection others have sullied, taking back what others stole.

Making America Great Again.
Once you live in the unreality that you are the perfect ones, whose apotheosis is hindered only by lesser beings, anything is permitted.

Apology is a crime
Hypocrisy is a virtue
Domination is the only principle
Wealth is our right
God is on our side

American Fascists.
Republicans don't have an Identity Crisis. They have a reality crisis. They're pushing out any still living on the borders of reality, for the crime of occasionally tepidly defending one of their neighbors.

They've chosen their leader: Reality Star.

They are what they are. The giant glazed Republican pig-president.

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