In the TParty Echo Chamber, the feeling of self-righteous invincibility is so overpowering that GOP operatives gleefully pour out their secret plans to obviously hostile journalists as if they don't need to care who hears what they are saying. Its almost as if the bubble is so impervious that they are incapable of questioning that their view of the world is obvious, irrefutable except to a handful of the deranged, Liberal fringe. Like Rand Paul's remarks to the medical students, they are so secure in the inevitability of their delusions that they don't really care who might be listening. As far as they are concerned, their position is so unassailable that they don't even have to go through the motions of defending it.

During the last the Presidential election, two Pennsylvania GOP officials bragged openly how their voter suppression efforts were going to hamstring the Democrats, not as strategists maneuvering to engineer a tactical coup in secret, but as if everyone knew this was the only obvious thing to do, and would applaud and support these actions. Its as if they don't realize that there are other people listening, and that not everyone within earshot will instantly agree with them. For this mentality, the barbarians are at the gates, and anything is fair game because their opponents are subhuman homunculi who deserve extermination, not representation, and everyone who doesn't accept that is not only contemptible and powerless, but irrelevant.

In their universe, the Democrats are buying the votes of the rabble to get power, so Republicans are therefore morally justified in perverting the electoral process itself. They are the true Americans, the rest of us have no business being here. Their enemies don't count, aren't really human.

This is Master Race stuff. Narcissism and paranoia. I've seen this movie before, and I don't like how it turns out.