@rbreich exactly, it is the normalisation of hatred.

Also, it is distraction from the real issues. It distracts from all their other attempts to remove rights (voter rights, worker rights, etc.).

We've been conditioned over the past few decades to accept the belief, that there is no slippery slope. It's seen as a lazy argument. Maybe it just the term that is wrong. It's not a slippery slope accidentally slid down. It's a designed staircase, we are descending.