Conservotarian reaction to the Rise of the Cotton Candy Topped Mogul is exactly like that of a practicing addict who wakes after a drug-fueled party and discovers that people took to heart his encouragement to get wasted and trash the place.
For the past 50 years, ever since Richard Nixon realized that the civil rights movement presented a golden opportunity to peel the South away from the Democrats, conservative elite opinion has been in a state of continual denial about the fact that the electoral success of the contemporary Republican party depends to a great extent on catering to and energizing a base that contains a high percentage of racists.
