i always feel like there's a tinge of the same effect that happens to cults when a prophecy doesn't come true to tweets like that. you have all these people who have built themselves around the idea that their votes and consumption are going to prevent things like the ICE camps from happening or at the very least they hold the idea that because of their identity the camps would mean an end to them.

then when all the handmaids tale type stuff happens, it happens mostly to people in the global south and the prisoners, homeless and poverty stricken in the north. the people who are basically completely absent from any of the discussion, viewership, or making of shows like that. those people get exiled by both the original structure and the one that was supposed to reform it. having to ask "why does evil spare me and not her?" "why does evil consider me a part of its function worth satisfying?" ends up being too much and people try to resolve the tension by reaffirming the original prophecy, ie "sure the concentration camp guards are bad, but look at the inefficiency their sexism generates!"

it's a refocus on the sliver of evil that might actually reach the speaker, the one that would reinforce their idea of the world's hierarchy.