I was commenting on how the Republicans and conservatives I've spoken with (i.e. people I can talk to one-on-one) do not resemble talking heads or the type of person who becomes the poster child for that kind of rhetoric. I sometimes think of the talking head or spokesman as taking on the role of artificial life form, as they simply do not resemble people I interact with on a daily basis in the same way that there was just something "off" with the pod people that altered Kevin McCarthy that something was amiss.

You are going on about theocracy and from earlier, your favorite line involving vice and virtue (it was clever once. Now it produces eyerolls).

You can see how someone might reasonably be lost in a WTF moment of head-twisting confusion.