Notice that Jack, Greg and Ron can not express their vision of total conservative success.

Perhaps they can not conceive of America obeying all of their deepest desired new laws. The dismemberment of current regulations was supposed to be a good thing.
They might not openly endorse slavery yet slavery by other means and words is now being excitedly discussed by conservative patriotic think tanks.

To their defense, no one imagines that their cause would ever turn against them to the point of arrest or deadly engagment.
Even fence sitters like Sophie in Sophies Choice did not espect that she was to be singled out for non compliance or enemy status.

Avenging the South and seeing the South rise again is a powerful stimulant for the sates rights crowd.

The world the conservatives want will be opposed by terrorism if not by another civil war. Does legislating tolerence and compromise seem likely to you this year?