Not excusing, just explaining; if you’re kept isolated and ignorant by an undermined education system, geographically and social media algorithm bubbled, limited economic prospects, and normalized extreme right wing religious propaganda you get these feelings like you would be morally justified in spreading your particular xenophobic bigoted view to others by force to ‘save’ them or society or whatever. It’s not uniquely American, it’s the same right wing, nationalistic, authoritarian rhetoric used as everywhere else, it’s just more religious believing countries tend to be more susceptible to this type of ideology rhetoric because it usually uses the same language and feelings as religious belief. Idaho has like 20% LDS, it’s second only to Utah most states are 1-5%.