DEI is a dog whistle to rally their base. They don't care abut DEI.
They genuinely believe domestic violence is something you should tolerate and accept. Etc.
They control the courts, presidency, congress, most state houses and governors offices, have most popular news shows and networks, and they're unwilling to admit their policies are incompetently administered so therefore socialists and trans people must actually be running things, somehow, somewhere, in some invisible way.
They refuse to take responsibility and imagine conspiracies where some scapegoat is puppet mastering their failure.
Don't dismiss it. They deeply believe this.
Musk has a trans child he's cutoff all contact with. There's very little evidence these people are faking it. There's never been a group chat that gets leaked to expose them as secretly fine respectable people.
We have this tendency to think socialist and leftist are all very serious about it while the people on the far right don't actually believe it, they're just pretending.
Nonsense. They're for real.
It is the same here. People scapegoat who they dislike.