It’s not dissonance. They believe that things they don’t like shouldn’t happen and things they do like should be allowed. They want to be homophobic and not hav

It’s not dissonance. They believe that things they don’t like shouldn’t happen and things they do like should be allowed. They want to be homophobic and not have their political opinions censured. There’s no inconsistency there. It bothers me when people bring this up about SCOTUS appointments. “Mitch McConnell said Merrick Garland can’t be voted on because it is an election year then did the same with ACB weeks before an election. What a hypocrite!” The right has cared about one thing above all else for the past decade: put conservative judges on the bench; as many as they can, as fast as possible. There’s no “dissonance”. They know exactly what they care about, what they’re doing, and why. It’s the same thing here. People don’t go by frameworks. They backfill justifications for their feelings. If those justifications overlap in weird ways, it’s just that they’re bad at consistently translating those justifications. The feelings are the same and not contradictory.