White Christian America under attack! Blame it all on the Hispanic immigrants, African immogrants, the Muslim immigrants destroying our way of life!
Actually it is only suffering from the effects of [mindless] decay and degeneracy due to complacent (and misplaced) reliance on the folks who [don't] represent them in national institutions and now, unable to face their own hand in their downfall, they need to have some 'other' to accuse and blame. Having , actively and proudly, ceded power to agents who can't help them as they are beholden to donors and the upper class, they must blame, what the British refer to as the loyal opposition but in order to shield themselves from what they have done they need to rely on an escalating negative rhetoric by characterizing those who do care about reversing the underlying causes of the rot within their favored belief structures as treasonous or terrorists because of the fear they feel in no longer being able to effectively deny that what they are doing; their own preferred decisions are what they are suffering from.
The result is that they praise and support the tyrant and make nonsensical pronouncements such as tearing up a "sheaf of lies" is a breach of ethics but promulgating the lies is a good thing and must be 'honored'. And that not applauding the tyrant is treasonous.
Since treason only exists in time of war this exposes the underlying condition that the tyrant is our enemy and is at war with us -- even if a large proportion of us choose not to believe that in order to protect ourselves from facing our (read their) own actions and [lack of] character.