The American right has created a highly profitable model of niche media by playing on people's fears of being overrun, outnumbered, and replaced by a threatening them. Exactly who poses the threat changes from day to day and week to week, depending on the news cycle. Sometimes it's immigrants. At other times, it's native-born racial minorities. At still others, it's gays, lesbians, and transgender people.

Do you hear that guys? Nothing bad is happening as result of demographic replacement and widespread trans-faggotry. It's all just right-wing media whipping up a frenzy.

Whatever the group, the fearmongering gains traction among listeners, viewers, and readers by portraying each as a significant segment of the population on the cusp of commanding enormous demographic and political power to transform the country as a whole in its image. The reason the perception of threat feels justified is that it plays on and into the general tendency to exaggerate the size of minorities, which seems to confirm the danger.

This is especially funny given the memes in right-wing circles like 13/56. Following right-wing discussions about demographics and their...behavior is a good way not to be misinformed about their sizes.