The entire wingnut welfare book and lecture circuit is built on the conservative-as-victim meme. The church I was raised in was steeped in the idea, wherein the dangerous liberal/communist/Christian hating world was out to get us and throw us in concentration camps for daring to be anti abortion and anti gay. (No, I most certainly do not attend there any more, for some obvious reasons…)

The idea that conservative Christianity, by far the dominant religious bloc as a whole in the country is somehow “in danger” and about to be extinguished is farcical. However, conservatives eat it up. They cherish the notion that they are the scrappy underdog Davids fighting the giant secular Goliath, and it fits well with the historical persecuted Christian history from antiquity.