I came to that realization when I went to a non-political thread in a non-political sub and somehow a conversation turned to undocumented immigrants and someone argued "I'm afraid of them not because I'm racist but because of the fact that they broke the law period by coming here, and if they'll break that law, who knows what other laws they're willing to break???" and it got 10k upboats and 40 wholesome chungus awards

Even people there who aren't outwardly/consciously reactionary demonstrate a reactionary way of viewing the world