David Roth has a wonderful explanation of the fascist degenerates who currently govern us (boldface mine):

Lots of awful people are like this, and a great percentage of the degenerate gentry that is Trump’s truest and most durable base is extremely like this: Dumb old bullies all grandiose and soft from golf and infidelity; illiterate real-estate types with detailed opinions on The Differences Between The Races; the luridly unemployable adult children of car-dealership guys; anhedonic beneficiaries of a good investment or two who have, through sheer restless indolence and various dull biases, backed into some truly berserk and totally bespoke authoritarian worldviews. Aging phone addicts who think the country “needs a pharaoh.” Ruddy tax evaders who fear cities and are insecure about their boats. None of these people really do things especially well, and all of them are visibly getting worse, but they are all far enough from experiencing any kind of consequences that they can’t really imagine failing at anything they try.

This mindset scales all the way up to some of the most powerful people in human history, but it is the same all the way down. It amounts to the belief that only these particular wimpy pink goofs, each one the protagonist of reality, can be entrusted to run things, and that any problem can be solved by telling some underling to handle it, and also to the idea that such an order becomes a glorious and vindicating solution immediately after it is issued. Nothing that follows will ever be their fault. Provided you do not care about or pay attention to the world, this worldview absolutely rocks.

While this results in (expensive) comedy when applied to the Open Air Algal Culture VesselReflecting Pool, it is tragic and harmful when applied to matters of war and peace. And Roth’s final sentence in the excerpt is why Democrats are trying to figure out how to hang a Iran failure–which to their credit they overwhelmingly did not support–around Republicans’ necks, while Republicans are trying how to not lose an illegal war they already lost.

This worldview absolutely rocks, indeed.