Conservatives think that the super-structures that govern every aspect of american life are necessarily just and fair. Any failure of said structures that they experience in their lives must therefore be a perversion of those systems, and not a natural consequence of them. A pothole must be the work of the democrats, because otherwise we would have to admit that our roads aren't exceptional
This is definitely a large part of it. Not just conservatives but liberals do this as well just they tend to see them as the failures of the conservatives rather than the system as a whole.
Conservatives think that the super-structures that govern every aspect of american life are necessarily just and fair. Any failure of said structures that they experience in their lives must therefore be a perversion of those systems, and not a natural consequence of them. A pothole must be the work of the democrats, because otherwise we would have to admit that our roads aren't exceptional
This is definitely a large part of it. Not just conservatives but liberals do this as well just they tend to see them as the failures of the conservatives rather than the system as a whole.