In The Thriller's mind, the average Republican is a mentally ill and estranged from is family loser who tries to kill people with a hammer. That is "average". The Thriller thinks that if you are in a room full of Republicans then half will be worse than this guy. Ignoring for a moment that David DePage isn't a Republican, The Thriller thinks actual Republicans are on average like this guy. That is how The Thriller sees the world. Red, you really see The Thriller's way of seeing things as "righteous"?
So I looked again at the full quote from Thriller. I have not seen many Republicans condemning the things that both Thriller, and I, and others, are so concerned about. Election denialism is embraced by Republicans. The MAGA wing appears to be dominating the party. The MAGA wing is enveloped in irrational conspiracism. With that in mind, this is what Thriller said:
Radicalized by Republican elected officials and right wing media. He sounds like your average Republican. The only difference is he acted on the rhetoric we see daily rather than “understanding it was all a big game or joke.”
I think he’s saying that since MAGA and far right rhetoric seems to be acceptable to the Republican Party in 2022, than that is now the stance of the average elected Republican, and their rhetoric, and the same rhetoric from right wing media, radicalized DePage. He echoes the same nonsense they do. Both DePage, and Republicans in general, have basically succumb to the same nonsense spun off Trump’s Big Lie and the embrace of conspiracism.
What Thriller did not say is this:
In The Thriller's mind, the average Republican is a mentally ill and estranged from is family loser who tries to kill people with a hammer.
Thriller did not say that the average Republican ACTS as you describe, or that the average Republican is mentally ill. He said DePage SOUNDS like the average Republican, in that DePage is voicing the same conspiratorial nonsense presently infecting the Republican Party. Don’t some 80% of registered Republicans believe the Big Lie? That’s a shame, but it does not mean they all own hammers, and they’re all just waiting for the first Democrat to come within range.
You’re not fond of the Thriller, and you often exaggerate, as you have in this instance. You twist things to suit your opinion of Thriller. He did not say the average Republican tries to kill people with a hammer. That’s you saying that’s what you believe The Thriller said.
It does seem like the average Republican believes the Big Lie. I doubt, I hope, that a small % only buy into the most extreme nonsense emanating from the far Right. I would never say all that loopy nonsense is embraced by all Republicans.