These "conservatives" believe that the proposition that all persons are created equal is socialism. They believe that equal opportunity is socialism. That's why they frequently equate liberalism, even classical liberalism, as socialism. Their agenda is to turn America into an illiberal single-party state with tiered levels of citizenship. And they will any fearmongering lies necessary to get there.
The thing is, while its erupted from them of late especially, but if you're objective you and look back through and see this type of mentality and general disdain for the groups that are not them throughout America's history.
I will give conservatives some credit, they do recognize what changed. Technology has enabled a modern media that can give raw unfiltered look at how horrible their true intent and feelings are, that when taken in historical context (that modern technology giving people access to better education and more comprehensive information, has made people more aware of), gives reason for alarm. The problem is, they don't understand that the issue isn't that the media is distorting it, its the total opposite, its that the media is no longer filtering their unhinged decrees, and that is causing them consequences. How they can blame the media when they regularly post incredibly fucked up stuff, completely in control of it themselves, on social media, and then turn around and cry that the media is just making them look bad is simply insane. But that's why they're demonizing the media, because the safeguards against them revealing their true nature are no longer there.
The scary thing is how many people cheered that, not because it gave us a true look at politicians, but because they agree with the hateful stuff the politicians have started saying openly. The weirdest aspect is that these same people are the ones that rage about modern media and technology the most, like they clearly don't actually understand how the one directly led to the other. Their issue is that they too have to deal with the majority of people going "WTF is wrong with you?!?" and using their own free speech to condemn it.