The quotes you provided about from Santorum Cornyn, the congressperson, Justice Alito are truly frightening and disturbing. I was outraged, yet somehow unsurprised, to see their joyous sense of victory from decades of planning be released in racially charge expressions that “slipped” out. The reason I am not really shocked from learning, writing on, and studying the deep dominant supremacist anger that courses unabated throughout US history, best represented by the South, the Civil War, confederate statues, but existing in “hidden” ways through out the rest of the country. This majority white man dominance has dueled throughout our history with the diversity movement, the suffragette movement, the civil rights movements, those struggles that rightly all represent the “inalienable rights” every American was promised but was never given or “allowed” to express since the founding. The dominant supremacist were not “allowing” it, beating them down those who wanted those rights recognized by the whip, by chains, by lynching and raping, by forced pregnancy. They will keep fighting, as Cornyn the racist made clear.
Progressives and liberals often “give up” after they fight and win. Can you blame them? They want to enjoy the taste of freedom they achieved, through the Civil Rights bills, the “gay marriage” ruling, and other. The point of life is to live openly in joy and be yourself, not to always fight, polish your guns, crack your whip, form militias—like the inherently twisted cruelty at the core of supremacists. They are the ones that don’t seem free, always clinging to their guns, ready to act against other, violently, through massacres, lynchings, insurrections. They are the ones not free, bound by a hatred you or I may never truly understand.