it actually seems to land

I think it lands like a missile. Cruz and his media helpers know how to hit the hot right-wing buttons. Some right-wingers are in on the joke. And it seems insane that anybody could get incensed about packets of fast food sauces but 10,000,000s of right-wingers have gone around the bend. They’re insane.

Imagine being apoplectic and ready to explode all the time. You don’t really understand why - even though you think that you do. You are 100% unwilling to do even an iota of self-introspection. Rage stops you from being able to really think about anything serious.

You’ve actually convinced yourself that shadowy forces - the libs or the dems or Obama or the Jews or blacks or whoever - are destroying America.

That’s been the right-wing since ~2015 when Trump got the republican nomination via nonsense: “Build the wall”, “Drain the swamp”, “Lock her up”, etc. Owning the libs became more important than anything else.

If the GOP controls everything in 2024 - the right-wing will be insane with joy. And if the GOP wreck healthcare - the right-wing will dance in the streets until they have a serious medical problem that under m4a would cost them - say, $200 but under GOPcare - they get a bill for $200,000.

It will be far too late to think.