They're no longer legally allowed to discriminate in South Africa, therefore white South Africans are victims. Religion played a dual role in SA, on the one hand, to rationalize apartheid, on the other, for liberation and reconciliation. The US seems to have a similar religious division between liberal and conservative sects.
Don't forget the Stanford Prison Experiment. The problem is the CEOs aren't like the psychologist running the experiment who brought it to an end when he realized it went too far.
Republicans have been huge supporters of the "State's Rights" argument. In transpeople's medical care, repubicans have ignored states rights to force their ideological agenda. Doublespeak.
It's kinda fascinating that the right wing has been one of the loudest screamers of "free speech", and now a right wing state is showing us that censorship is what they mean by "free speech". It's almost confounding: Free speech for me but not for thee.
There are serious differences between the two parties. Democrats withdraw support from a fellow democrat when credibly accused of sexual misconduct. But a GOP president who has been credibly accused of pedophilia can even start a serious war and the GOP refuses to check him.
The Trump admin talks about the Iran war, and it appears to have been quite real, but it is the people and their laws which seem to be constantly in the Admin's sights. The people are getting one "bombshell" news item after another where long-settled law is under attack (in this case medical records privacy). Has the Executive Branch been taken over by a hostile economic power, either a foreign government or a corporate syndicate of some kind?
It's curious to contrast this story with the Trump admin harassing states over offshore wind power.