Another excellent essay Dustin. You should check out Thorstein Veblen for different stages of barbarism. Modern day conservatives are only about conserving their wealth, and the odd thing is that the terrorists they have embraced of late will eventually come for it. They have taken their notion that fear motivates law and order to its reduction to absurdity point. Not to mention their on-going love affair with fascism. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/full-frontal-fascism-what-is-really-at-stake-in-the-trump-trial-a74d8c3503a4