Corollary, at the tip of that 'punte':
Every area attacked represents ... one of a few remaining reasons to want to (continue to?) reside in the remnants of the U.S.A. Much that is human, everything reminiscent of/evocative of any 'Art' whatsoever: now vulnerable
from motives of pure vindictiveness and indistinguishable from mindless destruction. This excerpt

It is made scarier still because it not only actively eschews experience, knowledge, relationships, insight, craft, special skills, tradition, and shared values but because it celebrates its ignorance of and disdain for those things. Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don’t understand, and what they don’t understand is almost everything

can be distilled to Alex's sig via Mister Azimov, no?

These vampires rank with Stalin/Djugashvili and the other hoary apparitions of the 20th/War-century.
Indeed these Monsters need to be removed to their appropriate sources of therapy, S.A.P
The FINAL? W.M.D.: unenlighten(able) massive and paralyzing Dumbth? == just like a Nuke.