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Reactionary ideology means they feel entitled to be in charge. They genuinely believe that they should have more privilege than others solely because of their identity as a white person or a Christian, or a man but most often a combination of the three.
Their whole motivation is that they believe the country is being stolen from them, who are it's rightful rulers.
They will do anything it takes to retain their privilege to tell you what to do. They're desperate due to the energy and demographics on the left rising to a level we haven't seen in decades; they don't intend to lose even if it means violence and/or overthrowing the government.
One of the reasons they attack critical race theory with such ferver is one of its absolutely true sociological tenets:
When you're accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.
Regardless of the facts, regardless of the way human beings have been treated like animals and need societal protection, modern reactionary conservatives only care about those feels.
The truth is, if you want to play the rightful rulers game, the only ones with a valid argument are the Native Americans, the ones that are left I mean. It's gallows hilarious how many groups of European white people have taken turns declaring themselves the true natives of this giant genocide graveyard built by literal slaves.