@Urban_Hermit It is an attempt to vilify them without churning up. “basket of deplorables” quality animosity.
We want to call them what they are: America-Hating Fucksticks. But that makes discourse difficult. Weird people hate having to be compared to Republicans, but it is a less hostile way to describe them. The truly weird would rather have Ms Harris in the WH, so we will tolerate it, for now.