This is the culmination of the right's efforts over the last thirty years to scare their followers into submission. Fear sells. It's a fact.

Look at their posts on the ADN. These guys are scared of gays, foreigners, Muslims, liberals, women, minorities, people who earn more than they do, people who earn LESS than they do, educated people, and on and on and on...

The problem is that when you back the True Believers into a corner with a bunch of scary rhetoric you don't how they'll react.