I think the article also makes a great point. They definite themselves by what they are not. They are not us.

The problem with figures such as Justin Trudeau is that they have defined themselves wholly in opposition to their critics. What is Justin Trudeau? That is a question that really can be answered only in the negative: He is not x. We are in much the same situation in the United States, where the core identity of each political party is simply that it is not the other political party. The mask scolds at your local grocery store cannot give up ritual face-covering for the same reason the Judean People’s Front and the People’s Front of Judea cannot give up their mutual rivalry: Without it, they will not know themselves.

And if they get slaughtered in the mid-terms it will make how they behaved during the 2016 presidential election look tame.

Like the declarations of progressives who once swore off “Trump vaccines,” it is a matter of identity, not a matter of policy, much less one of science. That is why a big Republican showing in the midterms will produce a convulsion among progressives, one that looks like a political crisis but that is, at heart, a spiritual crisis.

Their entire world will collapse if they LOSE power because of their tyranny. Truth won't reach them, but loss of power will. The Masked Karens can't stand losing the ability to bully others.