One of my conservative dad's (& semi-conservative brother's) most enduring beliefs about liberals -- by which they mean everyone to the left of Rs -- is that they walk in lock step, all think the same, & are on a mission to make everyone in the US think the same.

Everyone on the left agreeing with how I think ... has not been my experience.

I think it is one of the weirder cases of projection on the right. Somehow, allowing multiple races, cultures, and belief systems to live side-by-side as equals under a set of neutral laws & principles is dogmatic & narrow ...

... while the defense of white Christian patriarchy is about Freedom.

If you are inclined to see the world as a zero-sum contest among factions, you can only imagine other factions fighting for their factional interests like you are. You can only imagine your opponent, not as a set of principles & values, but as a Them out for Themselves.