They're cynical true believers, though. The originalist or limited interpretations are used highly selectively to meet whatever right wing goal they have in mind. The blatant nonsense is presented directly to them during argument and they choose to pretend it didn't exist or come up with a transparently inconsistent argument so that they can pretend to have addressed it.
"This 200 year old document didn't say so explicitly so it doesn't count" is pretextual, and buying into the idea of the pretext as being the actual reason is part of what gives it power.
They're cynical true believers, though. The originalist or limited interpretations are used highly selectively to meet whatever right wing goal they have in mind. The blatant nonsense is presented directly to them during argument and they choose to pretend it didn't exist or come up with a transparently inconsistent argument so that they can pretend to have addressed it.
"This 200 year old document didn't say so explicitly so it doesn't count" is pretextual, and buying into the idea of the pretext as being the actual reason is part of what gives it power.