It is shocking to the psychologically ignorant but obvious to two types of people, those who have seen this behavior from conservatives over and over again and to those who understand what inevitably drives conservative motivation.
A conservative's primary motivation is fear, and not just any fear but of feeling feelings that are deeply repressed. A conservative is someone who is afraid to be real because when the last were the house fell on them. Conservatives life in a straight jacket, terrified of rebelling against conformity, the conformity that was imposed on them with violence. They are attracted to alcohol because it helps them get in touch with those inner demons that haunt them and accounts for the violence that erupts from them when what is repressed that happened to them is released on others. Who among us is free of this? Who can even make a start by seeing this?