These men are major leaders in the fundy political complex, shrewd operators with their money-grubbing fingers constantly on the pulse of their audience. They feel no compunction about making insanely callous and historically illiterate statements like this because they know it will play well with that target audience. It has come to this, a dystopian nightmare in which a significant part of the population has been indoctrinated to the point of actual insanity, and demonically cruel insanity at that. This is becoming very dangerous.