re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Perhaps there is.

A fundamentalist mindset is fixated on being right.

It’s really, really important.

Combine that with people who think they are on a mission from some god, and we get people who are intent on being more Catholic than the Pope, so to speak.

There’s nothing inherently bad about wanting to look at Social Security honestly.

But the belief system of Johnson and today’s GOP is that taxes are sinful, so instead of just bumping up taxes a bit they have to insist on cutting benefits.

As for the idea that they want to enforce the belief that life begins at conception - this is one of the planks of the religious right, who now run the GOP.

Maybe we should be glad that Johnson et. al. put their cards on the table.

You’re not wrong
But ill rephrase

There isn’t one that can be explained as a viable election strategy

Adding externalities like suppressing the vote doesn’t count