[JBiserkov]

> Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election

I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".

[pjc50]

Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.

[tremon]

It's not about assumptions, it's rationalization. The tribal playbook requires one to demonize the enemy in order to justify what they want to do to them.