I see them as another manifestation of the Orange Lying Clown phenomenon - a coalescing of the national zeitgeist of "The world is leaving me behind and I can't keep up."  "Where's my privilege?  How come I don't have any advantage over women, and blacks,  and immigrants anymore?  Because there's a Conspiracy against me!"  We now have an alt-prez who models this thinking daily.  "If I can't understand it,  it can't be understood by anyone!"  "If I don't know it,  no-one knows it".  It's solipsism gone wild!