I wouldn't go that far. People can be extremely lacking in self-awareness. The red-brown stuff is of a slightly different character than what I'm responding to here.

I saw this very clearly in the 'leftists' who clearly agreed with teabaggers that a black President was the first stage of the American Ragnarok, and were pretty clearly salivating at the thought of the impending destruction they also thought it would unleash (but leftistly)