Republican voters.
There was never any hypocrisy about where they were choosing candidates from. However, they are lying massively about what these extremists will do if they get a majority. They're calling themselves "originalists" these days, which sounds like it should be respectable to the totally clueless.
It's really all about imposing extreme social and economic conservatism on the nation by oversetting all the more offensively liberal parts of our 242 years of established federal law. What they can't achieve through the democratic process of voting, they'll do by judicial fiat. Including cementing authoritarian government into our body of law.
And polls show a very large percentage of conservatives, tired of decades of losing at the polls, are ready for a bloodless putsch and will support authoritarian crackdowns on what they imagine will be the rest of us.
Things we take for granted as our rights are liable to just disappear at various points, like the federal guarantee of the right to use contraceptives, to not be spied on by police without a warrant and be informed of our rights (that have changed), to regard electricity as a utility subject to regulation of availability, quality and price for the public good, to have big national programs like Social Security and the ACA. And thousands of other things that are part of what it means to be Americans.
Our "right to privacy" touches every area of our lives. Law based on it doesn't just let us decide if we'll have children or not, it keeps the police from searching our homes and bodies for contraceptives. The right to privacy is not original, it was merely inferred to exist back in the 1960s from several parts of the bill of rights. If these people succeed, it will be reinterpreted and all laws based on it negated. Abortion will be illegal in most states before 2020, and of course the same for gay marriage.
If we let them, of course. The right isn't going to like what they get, but right wing extremism could well destroy our nation before it's stopped. It could take a generation or more to turn around, and what happens to us and those we care about before we do?
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