Humble Elias has always noted

that young men have a natural tendency towards authoritarianism. They like things definite and sometimes violent.
Conservatives tend to be very definite in their views which is why a certain brand of "hell ya" smashmouth conservatism always appeals to college age men anxious to appropriate a suitably macho identity outside the barracks at Fort Hood.
So when an authoritarian disposition gets hitched to the GOP's own natural desire to police the citizenship of others things like this happen.
Why does the GOP wanna police everyone else's citizenship? Because one way to win elections especially when demographics don't favor you is to restrict the franchise to your base voters.
Hence Ky Quan Phong follows Bill Keating's daughter around hoping somehow to force the DA off the congressional ballot.
Simple.
THAT is the premise at work here, and given the viral nature of all our thinking these days it is a sick sad scenario that will repeat itself going forward.