Republicans - Chicken Littles every one - want disaster to prove them right. They ignore every word anybody says to them that isn't already something they say to themselves. It's like their consciousness is password operated. If you don't say the right words and mean the right things by them, they regard you as subhuman and just go back to doing whatever they were doing. All the "isms" are operating at full swing in their brains and there's not really anyone home, which is why they panic so easily, because it would be super embarrassing for it to be demonstrated that they have no idea what you're talking about or why it's important.