It’s a victimization fetish, which is probably why they’re such a reliably consistent voting group, because they can be whipped up into a frenzy over anything and are constantly made to feel like their way of life is under attack. That entire world view uses that as justification for anything they do, since they’re already “under attack”, that completely excuses any trash thing that they do because they “didn’t start it”. They can never do anything wrong because everybody else already did something wrong first (whataboutism).