They can't up their game "socially".
They're the dumb jocks you knew in HS.
That's the schism between Republicans and Conservatives. The former can be irreligious, low morality, clannish, basically Country Club Boys. Fuck they just can't hang with real individualists and truely intellectual people. They're the fucking definition of "normie".
But hey - if we just let them lead us everything will go back to normal, right?