That's because the status quo is conservatives strategically losing ground on literally everything. Them doing so much as retaining ground is cause for uproar, but threatening to retake ground? It's the end of the their entire worldview. It's not something that can happen and if it is happening it must be seen as heralding some sort of primordial evil that requires a holy war.

That's what we're witnessing on some level, a holy war as waged by godless dysgenic freaks.