This possibly belongs in the Nation's Tears or the Yankees/Greed thread, but here's where I'm at: I know from being a Patriots fan what it is like to be a Trump voter. Because I know that after a certain point, the Patriots gave me all the joy I could possibly get from a team. But combine that with the vitriol that we've gotten as Pats fans - and by the way, I know, cry me a fucking river, Pats fans - and I just want to watch the world burn. All the heckling and the Drew Magarys of the world telling me I'm a bad person for rooting for the Pats - of which I assume 99% to be in jest and the remainder to come from people who are otherwise imbalanced so you can't really worry about it or take it seriously - has me playing along. I'm sort of like, fine! You want the Patriots to be villains? I will embrace the villainy.
The cognitive dissonance is that when I see this in our national discourse, it disgusts me, and there is at least a hypothetical hypocrisy because I'm taking the "I just wanna wreck everything"/"OWN THE LIBS" mentality that I criticize in politics and turning right around and applying it to my football team of choice. It certainly doesn't help that Kraft, BB, and Brady seem pretty cozy with Trump himself. Granted, I'm applying it to a goddamn game, not to people's actual lives - I don't want Rams fans, say, put in cages or disenfranchised - but it's the same sort of backlash response of "oh, you say I'm bad? WATCH ME BE REALLY BAD THEN."
So yeah. For me I've embraced pure misanthropy. Like, I don't want to ruin people's lives, but I do want to ruin their Super Bowl Sunday. I get satisfaction from their frustration. So in wishcasting, I just want the Patriots to, in the words of a recent MAGA-ite, "hurt the people they're supposed to be hurting." What would make that best? A thrashing of the Rams that sets records. Don't think it'll happen, but that's what I'm rooting for.